Ripples of Battle

by Victor Davis Hanson

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Hanson, Victor Davis.

  Ripples of battle : how wars of the past still determine how we fight, how we live, and how we think / by Victor Davis Hanson.— 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  1. Military art and science. 2. Civilization, Western. 3. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Japan—Okinawa Island. 4. Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862. 5. Delium, Battle of, Greece, 424 B.C. 6. World War, 1939–1945—Influence. 7. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Influence. 8. Greece—History—Peloponnesian War, 431–404 B.C.—Influence. I. Title.

  U27.H38 2003

  355.02—dc21 2003044043

  Copyright © 2003 by Victor Davis Hanson

  All Rights Reserved

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