Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power by Victor Davis Hanson

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

Victor Davis Hanson

526 pages digital 2001

3 editions

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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