
Last Stands
Why Men Fight When All Is Lost
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Michael Walsh
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Michael Walsh
What are we willing to die for? Michael Walsh restores the dignity of lost concepts like honor, duty, sacrifice, and patriotism for our unheroic age.
What is heroism? What are its moral components - altruism, love, self-sacrifice? Why was it once celebrated, and now often dismissed as anachronistic? In this dramatic account of last stands in history - famous or otherwise - Walsh explores the stakes that led men at very different times and places to face overwhelming odds and certain death for the sake of family, home and country.
In Last Stands, Walsh writes about battles in which a small group faced overwhelming odds, and all too often died to the last man - battles like Thermopylae, the Ronceveaux Pass, the Alamo, the siege of Malta, Little Big Horn, Stalingrad, Rorke’s Drift, and the Warsaw Ghetto - explaining why they were fought, what their ultimate outcome was, and their afterlife in history, myth, and culture.
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He states since the Russo-Japanese conflict, the Russians had no interest in eastern expansion. Mukden, Manchuria, IndoChina are but a few of the commonly known examples of eastern adventurism that the author misses—-not to mention Afghanistan and Pakistan closer to home.
Good grief!
Kinda of makes you wonder what other basic facts he gets wrong.
Those particular shockers, inaccuracies in WW2 strategy, and a certain homogeneity in the examples he uses raises questions about the entire work
Listen to the introduction and the early classical examples and move on.
The rest is redundant, factually suspect and as such, not worth you time.
Russia “not a colonizer?”
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Amazing Narration of the most Epic Battles of All Time
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Excellent historical facts
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Detailed History Here for The Taking...
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1. It’s less of a book about the events of the last stands, and more of a book about the context and consequences of the last stands. I would have liked more details of what actually happened.
2. The author uses too many “big” words. This is the 53rd book that I listened to this year and I have a graduate degree, so I appreciate good writing and the occasional use of unusual words. But the author went overboard.
3. The last chapter should have had a better summary.
All that said, I highly recommend this book.
Yeah interesting overview of last stands
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Required Reading
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Excellent
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Alot on USMC. Author is son of decorated marine so understood. That said, a mere nod to the fact that 21 Army divisions fought in the Pacific vs 6 Marine would have been appropriate. Army did more amphibious landings and suffered more casualties. Marines only had a higher percentage killed.
Interesting but title implies more
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The reason we need warriors
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In depth on specific details
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