The Face of Battle by John Keegan

Author:John Keegan
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-01-24T12:00:00+00:00

As I was rising from the ground, a bullet struck a man of my company named Overman ... He, falling backwards, came upon me with the whole weight of his accoutrements and knapsack, and knocked me down again. With some difficulty I crawled from under him. The man appeared to have died without a struggle. In my effort to rejoin my regiment, I trod upon his body. The act, although involuntary, caused me a disagreeable sensation whenever it recurred to my mind.

In a more conventional, but still revealing vein, Leeke recalls shedding tears at the sight of the first two soldiers of the 52nd to be killed on 18 June, while some of the most common ingredients of officers’ post-battle letters are very tender and concerned listings of the wounds received by their fellows. Wray, of the 40th, wrote:

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