Название: Famous Battles and How They Shaped the Modern World 1588-1943: From the Armada to Stalingrad
Автор: Beatrice Heuser, Athena S. Leoussi
Издательство: Pen & Sword Military
Год: 2018
Страниц: 192
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (conv), epub
Размер: 10.1 MB
Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, nor the number of dead, the ‘decisiveness’ of battles or their effects on communities and civilisations. It is their political afterlife – the multiple meanings and political uses attributed to them – that determines their fame. This ground-breaking series goes well beyond military history by exploring the transformation of battles into sites of memory and meaning. Cast into epic myths of the fight of Good against Evil, of punishment for decadence or reward for virtue, of the birth of a nation or the collective assertion against a tyrant, the defense of Civilisation against the Barbarians, Christendom against the Infidel, particular battles have acquired fame beyond their immediate contemporaneous relevance.