Hanson, Victor Davis. <br/><br/>
Ripples of battle :  how wars of the past still determine how we fight, how we live, and how we think / 
Victor Davis Hanson. 
 - First edition. 
 - ix unnumbered pages, 278 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-268) and index. 
<br/><br/> The Wages of Suicide: Okinawa, April 1-July 2, 1945 --  Recipe for a Holocaust --  The Laboratory of Suicide --  Divine Wind --  The Military Lessons --  Epilogue: The Men of Okinawa --  Shiloh's Ghosts, April 6-7, 1862 --  Morning: The Birth of Uncle Billy --  Afternoon: The Myth of the Lost Opportunity --  Evening: Ben-Hur --  Night: The Klansman --  Postmortem --  The Culture of Delium, November 424 B. C. --  The Battle --  Euripides and the Rotting Dead --  Thespian Tragedies --  The Faces of Delium --  Socrates Slain? --  Beauty from the Dead --  The Birth of Tactics --  What Was Delium? --  Epilogue: The Imprint of Battle.  Ch. 1.  Ch. 2.  Ch. 3. 
<br/><br/> Explores how three important battles, Okinawa, Shiloh, and Delium, an obscure battle of the Peloponnesian War, changed the course of Western history. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0385504004 9780385504003 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003044043 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civilization, Western.<br/>Delium, Battle of, Greece, 424 B.C.<br/>Military art and science.<br/>Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Japan--Okinawa Island.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Influence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Greece--History--Influence.--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.<br/>United States--History--Influence.--Civil War, 1861-1865
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>U27  / .H38 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>355.02