Battle : a history of combat and culture /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, MA :
Westview Press,
2004.
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| Edition: | Rev. and updated ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: Requiem for the universal soldier
- Written in blood : the Classical Greek drama of battle and the western way of war
- Subtleties of violence : ancienct Chinese and Indian texts on warfare
- Chivalry and chevauchée : the ideal, the real, and the perfect in medieval European warfare
- Linear warfare : images and ideals of combat in the age of enlightenment
- Victories of the conquered : the native character of the Sepoy
- The sun of Austerlitz : romantic visions of decisive battle in nineteenth-century Europe
- The merciless fight : race and military culture in the Pacific War
- Crossing the Canal : Egyptian effectiveness and military culture in the October War
- Epilogue: Terrorism : forming a new discourse on war
- Appendix: The discourse and the reality of war : a cultural model.