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Paperback Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power Book

ISBN: 0385720386

ISBN13: 9780385720380

Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power

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Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes's conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture...

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