Victor Davis Hanson

Ripples of Battle (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781400095322
• Artikelnr.: 38276033

Autorenporträt

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture. He is the author of The Soul of Battle, An Autumn of War, and Carnage and Culture, all published by Anchor Books. His most recent book is The Savior Generals (Bloomsbury 2013). Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007, the Bradley Prize in 2008, as well as the William F. Buckley Prize (2015), the Claremont Institute's Statesmanship Award (2006), and the Eric Breindel Award for opinion journalism (2002). He divides his time between his farm in Selma, CA, where he was born in 1953, and the Stanford campus.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
Introduction
CHAPTER 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
CHAPTER 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
CHAPTER 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
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index