Carnage and culture
Subtitle: landmark battles in the rise of Western power
By: Victor Davis Hanson.
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
Subjects: Battles; Military history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-478) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Why the West has won; title: 2. Freedom, of "To live as you please"; Salamis, Sept. 28, 480 B.C.; title: 3. Decisive battle; Guagamela, Oct. 1, 331 B.C.; title: 4. Citizen soldiers; Cannae, Aug. 2, 216 B.C.; title: 5. Landed infantry; Poitiers, Oct. 11, 732; title: 6. Technology and the wages of reason; Tenochtitlán, June 24, 1520-Aug. 13, 1521; title: 7. The market - or capitalism kills; Lepanto, Oct. 7, 1571; title: 8. Discipline - or Warriors are not always soldiers; Rorke's Drift, Jan. 22-23, 1879; title: 9. Individualism; Midway, June 4-8, 1942; title: 10. Dissent and self-critique; Tet, Jan. 31-Apr. 6, 1968; title: 11. Western warfare : past and future.