Book Recommendation

Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for Jan. 2–8

Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for Jan. 2–8
Dustin Bass,Barbara Danza,Mark Lardas,Jeff Minick
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This week, we feature a gritty but humor-filled portrayal of life as a World War II soldier and a biography of a historical Protestant powerhouse: Thomas Cromwell.

Nonfiction

‘Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost’

By Michael Walsh

The Spartans at Thermopylae, the Jews at Masada and Warsaw, the mixed company of men at the Alamo, and the Marines at Chosin. These are some of the battles analyzed here, all with one question hanging above them: Why do men go on fighting when all is lost? Throughout the book, Walsh turns again and again to why we fight wars, and likely will fight them in the future, and what it means to be a warrior, whether in Ancient Rome or America today. An excellent and dramatic survey of military history.

Dustin Bass is the creator and host of the “American Tales” podcast and cofounder of “The Sons of History.” He writes two weekly series for The Epoch Times: Profiles in History and This Week in History. He is also an author.