{"product_id":"ripples-of-battle-how-wars-of-the-past-still-determine-how-we-fight-how-we-live-and-how-we-think-paperback","title":"Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVictor Davis Hanson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe effects of war refuse to remain local: they persist through the centuries, sometimes in unlikely ways far removed from the military arena. In \u003cb\u003eRipples of Battle\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Hur\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne \u0026amp; Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of Battle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Autumn of War\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCarnage and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Anchor Books. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eThe Savior Generals \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury 2013). Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007, the Bradley Prize in 2008, as well as the William F. Buckley Prize (2015), the Claremont Institute's Statesmanship Award (2006), and the Eric Breindel Award for opinion journalism (2002). He divides his time between his farm in Selma, CA, where he was born in 1953, and the Stanford campus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.04 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 12, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978459742509,"sku":"9780385721943","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/WVN4aWQ3OUhaL2t4cFVLREhlNWJ4Zz09.webp?v=1775805286","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/ripples-of-battle-how-wars-of-the-past-still-determine-how-we-fight-how-we-live-and-how-we-think-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}