A great achievement of research, perception and fine writing. Few other books have managed to convey the true experience of war with such power and clarity -- Antony Beevor
Plainly ranks among the most important works of history Ive encountered over the last quarter century a comprehensive, readable, humane, moving and enlightening achievement of analysis and scholarship. This brilliant book will endure -- Tim OBrien, author of The Things They Carried and Going After Cacciato
Stephenson brings the face of battle even closer to us than John Keegan did over thirty years ago -- Hew Strachan, author of The First World War and Chicele Professor of the History of War, Oxford University

Michael Stephenson is the author of, most recently, Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought. In addition to his writing, he spent more than twenty-five years as a professional book editor, for much of that time with a particular focus on military publishing. For six years he was the editor of the Military Book Club. He lives in New York City.