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“Most enjoyable…. [A] strong point of view and robust prose.”–The Wall Street Journal
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Victor David Hanson, author of the highly regarded classic The Western Way of War, presents an audacious and controversial theory of what contributes to the success of military campaigns. Examining in riveting detail the campaigns of three brilliant generals who led largely untrained forces to victory over tyrannical enemies, Hanson shows how the moral confidence with which these generals imbued their troops may have been as significant as any military strategy they utilized. Theban general Epaminondas marched an army of farmers two hundred miles to defeat their Spartan overlords and forever change the complexion of Ancient Greece. William Tecumseh Sherman led his motley army across the South, ravaging the landscape and demoralizing the citizens in the defense of right. And George S. Patton commanded the recently formed Third Army against the German forces in the West, nearly completing the task before his superiors called a halt. Intelligent and dramatic, "The Soul of Battle is narrative history at it's best and a work of great moral conviction.
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Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor; Reprint edition (April 17, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385720599
ISBN-13: 978-0385720595
Product Dimensions:
5.3 x 1 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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Victor Davis Hanson's "The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny" is a thought-provoking, interesting, but too-lengthy study of three great democratic military leaders: the Theban Epaminondas, Sherman, and Patton. Hanson argues that the democratic armies under these three leaders, engaged in noble fights to save the oppressed and end tyranny, used their moral soul to defeat enemies that most considered superior.Hanson devotes one section to each of the leaders, giving brief biographies as well as highlighting their major campaign: Epaminondas' successful campaign to free the Spartan helots; Sherman's march through Georgia; and Patton's breakout from the Normandy beachhead. Hanson eschews traditional narrative history and tells the stories of these campaigns in a random order, sometimes starting at the end and working backwards, hopping around at other times, and never leaving any doubt or suspense about the conclusion. The book reads more like a discussion of the subject than actual history.Hanson harps on his thesis that, by fighting to free the helot slaves in Sparta, black slaves in the American South, and Jews and many other minorities being exterminated in the Greater Reich, the democratic armies' moral ascendancy translated into ascendancy on the battlefield; and that great military leaders with a vision, leading these armies, can ignore traditional military tenets and crush enemy forces: Epaminondas' army of farmers attacked the heretofore invincible Spartan professional army and homeland; Sherman cut his supply lines and marched through the heart of enemy territory; and Patton succeeded when all other Allied generals were too timid and could have ended the war in 1944 if he was not held back.Despite Hanson's eloquent writing, he is numbingly repetitious: at times it feels as if he's repeatedly beating you over the head with the same point or quotation. Readers familiar with his writing will again see his sweeping generalizations repeated while he ignores or belittles opposing viewpoints without giving them due consideration. (And anyone with any sympathy for the Southern viewpoint in the Civil War will not like Hanson's vitriolic condemnation of almost every aspect of the antebellum South.)As sympathetic as I am to Hanson's argument that a democratic army fighting tyranny is superior to all others, I found this book intriguing and persuasive, but ultimately unconvincing. Hanson could have made the same ambitious arguments without the lumbering repetition or overstated conclusions, expanded his narrative history to tell the whole story instead of part of the story, and still written a much shorter book. Ultimately, despite these shortcomings, this is a stimulating book that anyone with a serious interest in military history should read.
Hanson puts into clear and eloquent words what I have known for a long time. Patton was the key element in WWII in the fight against the Nazis. What few have understood is made poignantly clear, that Patton could easily have ended WWII six to 12 months earlier and saved millions of lives.
This is an interesting and thought-provoking book. It brings to light little-known facts about three important warriors, and is probably the most coherent account of WIlliam Sherman that I have read, more insightful even than the excellent biography of Sherman, "A Soldier's Passion for Order". There is perhaps a willingness to push opinions to extemes - it seems unlikely to me that Alexander's campaigns, or those of Napoleon or even of Julius Caesar were entirely expressions of their commanders' egotism without any moral component, for instance.Hanson's views of Spartan society and of antebellum Southern society are dark indeed, but I think that he supports them well enough. The evil of Nazi government needs no elaboration.Hanson, as one might expect, writes well, and yet ... I wouldn't say that he is exactly repetitious, but he will discuss a subject, go off on another, and then circle back to the first, adding new information and insight. It is an imperfect style, but it does get across a complex of information in a way that a more linear approach might not.
Hanson presented a view of how democracies go to war using ordinary average people that clearly explain a bunch of things like why did a war based culture like the Spartans or the Nazi's in WW II lost. His writing is clear and easy to follow, although he knows more big words than I do and so I read this one with a dictionary (a big one) beside me. Obviously this is a specialty interest of mine, but if it is yours, this is an excellent place to start.
Three heroes who were masters of violence and were eager for it to end.The bluster and rhetoric of all three (see Epaminondas' response to his Theban accusers) held all the evil that war entails, and that rhetoric held the answer as to why the war should be fought as they envisioned. Their enemies deserved destruction of the quickest and most brutal type, rendering them incapable of fighting in the near future and leaving the conquerors and their armies free to return to their lives. This approach, ironically, led to few casualties on both sides.With Epaminondas and Sherman, they were able to complete their vision and the results brought peace for an age.Patton's vision was the same, but his treatment, given the context, defines superficiality. The enslavement of Eastern Europe and an aggressive Soviet Union was the result.On at least five occasions, Patton was restrained from shortening WWII by months, saving lives and depriving the Soviet Union of its Warsaw Pact "allies". He was punished for the most trivial offenses (i.e. forgetting to mention the Soviets in a speech) while the Nazi's were murdering millions and the Soviets were gearing up for the same.These three deomstrated the moral way to deal with an immoral enemy, and with the exception of Patton for reasons beyond his control, they demonstrated the results of war when fought in the name of a moral cause.
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