The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, how Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny"In The Soul of Battle, Victor Davis Hanson, answers these questions in a new and startling way. Hanson offers three incredible stories - the sagas of history's greatest marches - that coalesce into a single powerful theory of men and war. Each story involves a democratic army pulled together on short notice, which marched deep into enemy territory to overthrow a government whose morality was fundamentally repugnant to its own. Each army stunned the world by covering many miles and capturing huge numbers of its demoralized foes. In all three cases, Hanson argues, conviction (more than firepower) made the difference against long odds. Hanson's conclusion has far-reaching consequences in our convictionless times: right makes might."--Jacket. |
Contents
YEOMEN OF THEBES | 15 |
SHERMANS MARCH TO THE | 121 |
The Idea | 131 |
The Soul of an Army | 148 |
Where Is the Enemy? | 169 |
An Apartheid Society | 188 |
Uncle Billy | 212 |
The End and the Beginning | 232 |
A Deadly Enemy | 305 |
A Cog in the Wheel? | 329 |
Ideological Warriors | 346 |
The Labyrinth of Slavery | 367 |
A Different Idea | 390 |
The End of the Democratic Marches? | 405 |
Glossary | 413 |
Bibliography | 463 |
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