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Ripples of battle : how wars of the past still determine how we fight, how we live, and how we think / Victor Davis Hanson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Doubleday, 2003Edition: First editionDescription: ix unnumbered pages, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0385504004
  • 9780385504003
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Ripples of battle.DDC classification:
  • 355.02 21
LOC classification:
  • U27 .H38 2003
Contents:
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.
Summary: Explores how three important battles, Okinawa, Shiloh, and Delium, an obscure battle of the Peloponnesian War, changed the course of Western history.
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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.

Explores how three important battles, Okinawa, Shiloh, and Delium, an obscure battle of the Peloponnesian War, changed the course of Western history.

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