Last stands : why men fight when all is lost /

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? I...

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Main Author:	Walsh, Michael, 1949- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : St. Martin's Press, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Battles > History. Military history > Miscellanea. Courage. Honor.