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Book Title: Ripples of Battle : How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think
Item Length: 8in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 5.3in
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Military / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Psychology
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2004
Genre: Psychology, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 9.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
