Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think

Explores How Three Important Battles, Okinawa, Shiloh, And Delium, An Obscure Battle Of The Peloponnesian War, Changed The Course Of Western History. Ch. 1. The Wages Of Suicide: Okinawa, April 1-july 2, 1945 -- Recipe For A Holocaust -- The Laboratory Of Suicide -- Divine Wind -- The Military Lessons -- Epilogue: The Men Of Okinawa -- Ch. 2. Shiloh's Ghosts, April 6-7, 1862 -- Morning: The Birth Of Uncle Billy -- Afternoon: The Myth Of The Lost Opportunity -- Evening: Ben-hur -- Night: The Klansman -- Postmortem -- Ch. 3. The Culture Of Delium, November 424 B.c. -- The Battle -- Euripides And The Rotting Dead -- Thespian Tragedies -- The Faces Of Delium -- Socrates Slain? -- Beauty From The Dead -- The Birth Of Tactics -- What Was Delium? -- Epilogue: The Imprint Of Battle. Victor Davis Hanson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 260-268) And Index.