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Ripples of Battle

Ripples of Battle

How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think

by Victor Davis Hanson and Professor of Classical Languages Victor Davis Hanson
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Publication Date: 12/10/2004

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The effects of war refuse to remain local: they persist through the centuries, sometimes in unlikely ways far removed from the military arena. In Ripples of Battle, " "the acclaimed historian Victor Davis Hanson weaves wide-ranging military and cultural history with his unparalleled gift for battle narrative as he illuminates the centrality of war in the human experience. The Athenian defeat at Delium in 424 BC brought tactical innovations to infantry fighting; it also assured the influence of the philosophy of Socrates, who fought well in the battle. Nearly twenty-three hundred years later, the carnage at Shiloh and the death of the brilliant Southern strategist Albert Sidney Johnson inspired a sense of fateful tragedy that would endure and stymie Southern culture for decades. The Northern victory would also bolster the reputation of William Tecumseh Sherman, and inspire Lew Wallace to pen the classic" "Ben Hur."" And, perhaps most resonant for our time, the agony of Okinawa spurred the Japanese toward state-sanctioned suicide missions, a tactic so uncompromising and subversive, it haunts our view of non-Western combatants to this day.
ISBN:
9780385721943
9780385721943
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
12-10-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
306
Dimensions (mm):
204x134x16mm
Weight:
0.28kg
Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and lives in Selma, California.

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