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Last Stands audiobook

  • By: Michael Walsh
  • Narrator: Michael Walsh
  • Category: History, Military, United States
  • Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2021
  • Language: English
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Last Stands Audiobook Summary

Award-winning author Michael Walsh celebrates the masculine attributes of heroism that forged American civilization and Western culture by exploring historical battles in which soldiers chose death over dishonor.

In our time, men are increasingly denied their heritage as warriors. A survival instinct that’s part of the human condition, the drive to wage war is natural. Without war, neither the United States nor any other country would exist. The technology that has eased manual labor, extended life spans, and become an integral part of our lives and culture has often evolved from wartime scientific advancements. War is necessary to defend the social and political principles that define the virtues and freedoms of America and other Western nations. We should not be ashamed of the heroes who sacrificed their lives to build a better world. We should honor them.

The son of a Korean War veteran of the Inchon landing and the battle of the Chosin Reservoir with the US Marine Corps, Michael Walsh knows all about heroism, valor, and the call of duty that requires men to fight for something greater than themselves to protect their families, countrymen, and most of all their fellow soldiers. In Last Stands, Walsh reveals the causes, outcomes, and lasting legacies of more than a dozen battles in which a small fighting force refused to surrender to a far larger force, often dying to the last man.

From the Spartans’ defiance at Thermopylae and Roland’s epic defense of Charlemagne’s rear guard at Roncevaux Pass, through Santa Anna’s siege of the Alamo–defended by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie–to the clash at the Little Big Horn between Crazy Horse’s Sioux Nation and George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry, to the Soviets’ titanic struggle against the German Wehrmacht at Stalingrad, and more, Walsh reminds us of the debt we owe to heroes willing to risk their lives against overwhelming odds–and how these sacrifices and battles are not only a part of military history but also of our common civilizational heritage.

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Last Stands Audiobook Narrator

Michael Walsh is the narrator of Last Stands audiobook that was written by Michael Walsh

The author of fifteen other novels and nonfiction books, Michael Walsh was the classical music critic and foreign correspondent for Time magazine, for which he covered the end of the Cold War from Berlin and Moscow. In 2004, he received an American Book Award for his gangster novel And All the Saints. His most recent works, The Devil’s Pleasure Palace and The Fiery Angel, examine the enemies, heroes, triumphs, and struggles of Western civilization from ancient Greece and Rome to the present.

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Michael Walsh is the author of Last Stands

Last Stands Full Details

Narrator Michael Walsh
Length 13 hours 42 minutes
Author Michael Walsh
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date March 28, 2024
ISBN 9781799909378

Subjects

The publisher of the Last Stands is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is History, Military, United States

Additional info

The publisher of the Last Stands is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781799909378.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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