Acknowledgments
         Chapter I: Old, Unhappy, Far-off Things
         A Little Learning
         The Usefulness of Military History
         The Deficiencies of Military History
         The "Battle Piece"
         "Killing No Murder?"
         The History of Military History
         The Narrative Tradition
         Verdict or Truth?
         Chapter 2: Agincourt, 25 October 1415
         The Campaign
         The Battle
         Archers versus Infantry and Cavalry
         Cavalry versus Infantry
         Infantry versus Infantry
         The Killing of the Prisoners
         The Wounded
         The Will to Combat
         Chapter 3: Waterloo, 18 June 1815
         The Campaign
         The Personal Angle of Vision
         The Physical Circumstances of Battle
         Categories of Combat
         Single Combat
         Cavalry versus Cavalry
         Cavalry versus Artillery
         Cavalry versus Infantry
         Artillery versus Infantry
         Infantry versus Infantry
         Disintegration
         The Wounded
         Chapter 4: The Somme, 1 July 1916
         The Battlefield
         The Plan
         The Preparations
         The Army
         The Tactics
         The Bombardment
         The Final Preliminaries
         The Battle
         Infantry versus Machine-Gunners
         Infantry versus Infantry
         The View from across No-Man's-Land
         The Wounded
         The Will to Combat
         Commemoration
         Chapter 5: The Future of Battle
         The Moving Battlefield
         The Nature of Battle
         The Trend of Battle
         The Inhuman Face of War
         The Abolition of Battle
         Bibliography
         Index
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