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Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think Hardcover - 2003
by Hanson, Victor
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- Title Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think
- Author Hanson, Victor
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1
- Condition Used: Good
- Pages 278
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Doubleday, New York
- Date 2003-09-16
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0385504004
- ISBN 9780385504003 / 0385504004
- Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 9.56 x 6.32 x 1.03 in (24.28 x 16.05 x 2.62 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Military art and science, Civilization, Western
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003044043
- Dewey Decimal Code 355.02
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Summary
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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Throughout the fall of 2001 and early 2002, the military referents in the West for the war against the Islamic fundamentalists were the fanatical kamikazes of Okinawa of the past-their letters published in newspapers, the Pacific war recounted by columnists, and veterans of the conflict interviewed on television.
