A Rage to Live, A Time to Die

“In A Rage to Conquer Michael Walsh surveys twelve landmark battles from Troy to 9⁄11. But his interest transcends traditional operational, tactical, strategic, and political approaches to these conflicts. Instead, Walsh brings a lifetime of wide travel and literary, cultural, economic, and social study to chart how these bloodbaths influenced far more than the art of war or the politics of the time, but rather changed civilization and culture itself. A fascinating and engaging 3,000-year walk through military history and the complex interplay between war and the world about it.” – Victor Davis Hanson, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, author of The End of Everything

“In A Rage to Conquer, Michael Walsh, a brilliant scribe of culture and history, continues the discussion of war that he began with his 2020 book, Last Stands. A Rage to Conquer eschews an operational history of wars, opting instead for a more fruitful interpretative cultural and military approach that views epochal battles in their broader context.” – Mackubin Owens, Col. USMC (ret), Silver Medal, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute

MICHAEL WALSH is the author of Last Stands and more than fifteen other novels and non-fiction books. He was the classical music critic for Time Magazine and received the 2004 American Book Awards prize for fiction for his gangster novel, And All the Saints in 2004. His popular columns for National Review written under the pseudonym David Kahane were developed into the book, Rules for Radical Conservatives. His books The Devil’s Pleasure Palace and The Fiery Angel, examine the enemies, heroes, triumphs and struggles of Western Civilization from the ancient past to the present time. He divides his time between Connecticut and Ireland.

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