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"""Hamner has created an American counterpart to John Keegan's The Face of Battle. An excellent and valuable addition to the growing literature on combat motivation and the experience of soldiers in battle.""--Peter R. Mansoor, author of The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions ""Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the soldier's experience in combat and how that experience can change over time.""--Peter S. Kindsvatter, author of American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam ""This is 'long range' history of a high, assured order.""--Earl J. Hess, author of The Union Soldier in Battle ""Provocative, illuminating.""""--Publishers Weekly ""Offers a fresh opportunity to engage in a timeless debate--an essential element of understanding military history and grappling with contemporary military affairs.""--Army ""Makes an invaluable contribution by complicating our understanding of the nature of combat and will certainly become a standard work for historians of soldiers' experiences under fire.""--Historian ""Hamner's book offers a smoothly written, closely argued, but perhaps deceptively compelling explanation why Americans confronted with the horrors of the battlefield generally choose fighting over flight. Looking at the experiences of American soldiers in the War of American Independence, the Civil War, and the Second World War, Hamner argues that changes in fighting methods required new mechanisms to allow soldiers to endure battle.""--War in History ""Drawing on insights from psychology and sociology, Hamner has written an engaging history that seeks to understand the experience of combat as powerfully contingent upon time and place. . . . [Such quibbles aside, ] this book can readily be recommended as a study of combat motivation in history. ""--Journal of Interdisciplinary History"

Hamner has created an American counterpart to John Keegan's <i>The Face of Battle</i>. An excellent and valuable addition to the growing literature on combat motivation and the experience of soldiers in battle. --<b>Peter R. Mansoor</b>, author of <i>The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions</i> Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the soldier's experience in combat and how that experience can change over time. --<b>Peter S. Kindsvatter</b>, author of <i>American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam</i> This is 'long range' history of a high, assured order. --<b>Earl J. Hess</b>, author of <i>The Union Soldier in Battle</i>

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