Ripples of Battle
Subtitle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: September 16, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780385504003
First sentence: Throughout the fall of 2001 and early 2002, the military referents in the West for the war against the Islamic fundamentalists were the fanatical kamikazes of Okinawa of the past-their letters published in newspapers, the Pacific war recounted by columnists, and veterans of the conflict interviewed on television.
Description: Explores how three important battles, Okinawa, Shiloh, and Delium, an obscure battle of the Peloponnesian War, changed the course of Western history.