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Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think O'Connor and historical figures to illustrateISBN 13: 9780385721943 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication date: 10 12 2004 Edition description: Reprint Pages: 304 Sales rank: 63,385 Product dimensions: 5. 14(w) x 7. 99(h) x 0. 77(d) The effects of war refuse to remain local: they persist through the centuries, sometimes in unlikely ways far removed from the military arena. In Ripples of Battle, the acclaimed historian Victor Davis Hanson weaves wide ranging military and