In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History

by Richard F. Miller

Throughout recorded military history, leaders have persuaded men to risk life and limb for God, country, unit, comrades, and families; for plunder, vengeance, glory, a lasting peace, or new conquests. Beginning with the holy wars of the Hebrew Bible and continuing to the present Iraq conflict, one constant motivator of men in war has been the battle speech: the exhortatory words uttered by commanders on the eve of invasions and before, during, after,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584657316
• ISBN13: 9781584657316
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"