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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780385721943
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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