List of Maps
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
The Wages of Suicide: Okinawa, April 1–July 2, 1945
Recipe for a Holocaust
The Laboratory of Suicide
Divine Wind
The Military Lessons
Epilogue: The Men of Okinawa
CHAPTER 2
Shiloh’s Ghosts, April 6–7, 1862
Morning: The Birth of Uncle Billy
Afternoon: The Myth of the Lost Opportunity
Evening: Ben-Hur
Night: The Klansman
Postmortem
CHAPTER 3
The Culture of Delium, November 424 B.C.
The Battle
Euripides and the Rotting Dead
Thespian Tragedies
The Faces of Delium
Socrates Slain?
Beauty from the Dead
The Birth of Tactics
What Was Delium?
Epilogue: The Imprint of Battle
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index