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Carnage and Culture Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power

Paperback • 2002 • English • 1. edition

Carnage and Culture Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power

By Victor Davis Hanson

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Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture and values–the tradition of dissent, the value p...Show more

Theory of warfare and military science
Battles and campaigns

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9780385720380

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published year

2002

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Carnage and Culture Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power

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Paperback

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