Ripples of Battle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ripples of Battle write by Victor Davis Hanson. This book was released on 2004-10-12. Ripples of Battle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Why the West Has Won
Why the West Has Won - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why the West Has Won write by Victor Davis Hanson. This book was released on 2002. Why the West Has Won available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Why The West Has Won' provides a history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success.
Summary of Victor Davis Hanson's Ripples of Battle
Summary of Victor Davis Hanson's Ripples of Battle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Summary of Victor Davis Hanson's Ripples of Battle write by Everest Media,. This book was released on 2022-05-18T22:59:00Z. Summary of Victor Davis Hanson's Ripples of Battle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The American plan for the invasion of Okinawa was simple: kill so many Japanese, destroy so many aircraft, and sink so many ships that the United States would never want to go through such a ordeal again. But the Japanese had different goals, which were to kill so many Americans that the United States would never want to go through such a ordeal again. #2 The American invasion of Okinawa was not as easy as it seemed. The Japanese had planned to let the Americans land on the beaches unopposed, then lure them into well-fortified Japanese positions in the southern part of the island. By day, there would be hardly any Japanese in sight; at night, tens of thousands would shell and attack American lines. #3 The American invasion of Okinawa was led by General Buckner, who commanded all land forces in the invasion. He looked not at the nature of the island, but at the unprecedented killing power of the American fleet, the logistical capacity of the American army, and the deadly nature of his Marines. #4 The American generals knew nothing of the challenges of Okinawa's steep gorges and impenetrable terrain, the deadly nature of the kamikaze threat, or the frequency of cloudy and rainy weather over the island. They believed that the defenders would be defeated within days.
Carnage and Culture
Carnage and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carnage and Culture write by Victor Davis Hanson. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Carnage and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 placed on inventiveness and adaptation, the concept of citizenship–which have consistently produced superior arms and soldiers. Offering riveting battle narratives and a balanced perspective that avoids simple triumphalism, Carnage and Culture demonstrates how armies cannot be separated from the cultures that produce them and explains why an army produced by a free culture will always have the advantage.
The Soul of Battle
The Soul of Battle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soul of Battle write by Victor Davis Hanson. This book was released on 2001-04-17. The Soul of Battle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that American generals Sherman and Patton, as well as Athenian general Epaminondas, were the greatest military leaders in history.
