商品簡介
The MarinesA1 march up to Baghdad, ShermanA1s trail of destruction in Georgia, an army of Missouri volunteers trekking across the Great Plains to MexicoA
Starting with the Iraq War, Tim Rood turns back to the conquest of the American West and to the Civil War, showing how one of the most famous episodes in classical antiquity was first appropriated in the name of military expansion, and then used to express conflicting responses to the most controversial campaign of the Civil War. Allusions to Xenophon in speeches, newspaper reports, and military memoirs are throughout read against XenophonA1s own story.
作者簡介
Tim Rood is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and author of The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination [for reviews see the back panel of this jacket].
