TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hanson,Victor Davis
TI  - Ripples of battle: how wars of the past still determine how we fight, how we live, and how we think 
SN  - 0385504004
AV  - U27 .H38 2003
U1  - 355.02 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Civilization, Western
KW  - Delium, Battle of, Greece, 424 B.C
KW  - Military art and science
KW  - Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Japan
KW  - Okinawa Island
KW  - Influence
KW  - Greece
KW  - History
KW  - Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C
KW  - United States
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-268) and index; Ch. 1; 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 --; Ch. 2; 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 --; Ch. 3; 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
N2  - Explores how three important battles, Okinawa, Shiloh, and Delium, an obscure battle of the Peloponnesian War, changed the course of Western history
ER  -