Enduring battle

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Christopher Hamner's "Enduring Battle" is a literary descendent of John Keegan's classic "The Face of Battle." Keegan studied the experience of combat for British soldiers at Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, and found the most important single motivation for soldiers was their tendency to fight for each by: 4.

Enduring Battle looks beyond advances in weaponry to examine changes in warfare at the very personal level. Drawing on the combat experiences of American soldiers in three widely separated Throughout history, battlefields have placed a soldier's instinct for self-preservation in direct opposition to the army's insistence that he do his duty and /5.

Enduring Battle explores both the changes and continuities in infantrymen's combat experience over time. Important commonalities connected the experiences of soldiers on the battlefields of these wars: the smothering presence of danger, the potency of fear in battle, and the constant proximity of death represented the most profound and nearly Pages: Christopher Hamner talked about his book, [Enduring Battle: American Soldiers in Three Wars, ].

He contrasted and compared the experiences. Earl J. Hess's book "The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat" is a lucid and convincing account of the Union soldier's adjustment to the harrowing experience of combat. Hess's straightforward use of soldiers' correspondence and memoirs presents the reader with an illustrative candor which boldly challenges any romantic Cited by: The book's coverage of training and leadership explores the ways in which military systems have attempted to deal with the problem of soldiers' fear in battle and contrasts leadership in the linear and dispersed tactical systems.

Enduring Battle challenges long-standing notions that high ideals and small unit bonds provide sufficient. With a rich narrative of the Battle for “Hamburger Hill,” and through substantial interviews with those who served, the book depicts the cruelty of this war, and its quiet acts of courage.

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With a rich narrative of the Battle for “Hamburger Hill,” and through substantial interviews with those who served, the book depicts the cruelty of this war, and its quiet acts of courage.

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Mr. Hess is a thorough historian, and in this book concentrates on the reality of battle. He is not sentimental, nor does he portray soldiers as victims, and yet gives us clarion thoughts about what it took for men to endure combat/5.37 This discussion of TF is drawn from Jeffrey G.

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