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Nothing less than victory : decisive wars and the lessons of history / John David Lewis.
LIBRA U21 .L524 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, John, 1955-2012.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War--Termination--History.
- War.
- War--Moral and ethical aspects--History.
- Peace--History.
- Peace.
- History.
- War--Moral and ethical aspects.
- War--Termination.
- Physical Description:
- 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Victory and the moral will to fight
- "To look without flinching": the Greco-Persian wars, 547-446 BC
- "Only one omen is best": the Theban wars, 382-362 BC
- "I will have my opponent": the Second Punic War, 218-201 BC
- "A prince necessary rather than good": the campaigns of Aurelian, AD 270-275
- "The hard hand of war": Sherman's march through the American South, AD 1864-1865
- "The balm for a guilty conscience": British appeasement and the prelude to World War II, AD 1919-1939
- "Gifts from heaven": the American victory over Japan, AD 1945
- The lessons of the victories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691135182
- 0691135185
- OCLC:
- 406945805
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