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Through vivid depictions of historic battles, the author exposes the connection between the West's superiority on the battlefield and its rise to world dominance, including controversial arguments ignited by the recent works of various historians. 25,000 first printing.
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Victor Davis Hanson is a military historian who is a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno. He has written several popular books on classic warfare, including The Other Greeks and The Western Way of War, and The Soul of Battle. He lives in Selma, California.
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d depictions of historic battles, Victor Davis Hanson reveals the connection between the West s superiority on the battlefield and its rise to world dominance.
Why have Western values triumphed? Why are Western ideas and practices spreading unopposed throughout the globe? In this sweeping and ambitious work of military and cultural history, Victor Davis Hanson convincingly argues that it all comes down to the Western knack for killing.
Hanson is a superb writer with a particular gift for dropping the reader into the midst of clashing armies. With his trademark zest for bringing the gritty realities of battle to life, he vividly re-creates nine important confrontations between Western and non-Western armies, from the stunning Greek victory at Salamis in 480 B.C. to Cortés s conquest of Mexico City in 1521 to the grueling urban warfare of Vietnam s Tet Offensive. But Hanson goes beyond the conventions of the guns and trumpets genre to r
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