The Other Face of Battle: America's Forgotten Wars and the Experience of Combat

Focusing on three battles, each reflective of asymmetrical, intercultural, and irregular warfare, this provocative, harrowing, and illuminating book shows how American soldiers have experienced combat in which the "standard" rules of engagement did not apply.

Wayne E. Lee is the Bruce W. Carney Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina. He is the author of many books, most recently Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History (OUP 2016). He is a veteran of the U.S. Army, and was the 2015-16 Harold K. Johnson Chair of Military History at the U.S. Army War College.

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 (OUP, 2015), which won the Gilder-Lerhman Prize in Military History and was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize.

Anthony E. Carlson is an Associate Professor of History at the US Army's School of Advanced Military Studies, Ft. Leavenworth, KS. Having previously served as an historian and analyst at the US Army's Combat Studies Institute, Carlson has interviewed hundreds of soldiers who fought in Afghanistan.

David Silbey is the Associate Director of the Cornell in Washington program and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Cornell History Department. He has written books on the British Army in World War I, the Philippine-American War, and the Boxer Rebellion in China.