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

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

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 Da…

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