Carnage and Culture (Hanson - paperback)

Author: Victor Davis Hanson

ISBN: 9780385720380

Binding: paperback

Section: History

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.