David Preston is General Mark Clark Distinguished Professor of History at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the author of Braddock's Defeat, which won the Gilder-Lerhman Prize in military history and was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize.
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Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle, illuminates the American experience of fighting in 'irregular' and 'intercultural' wars over the centuries. Sometimes known as 'forg... SEE MORE