What is heroism? What are its moral components - altruism, love,
self-sacrifice? Why was it once celebrated, and now often dismissed
as anachronistic? In this dramatic and readable account of last
stands in history - famous or otherwise - Walsh explores the stakes
that led men at very different times and places to face
overwhelming odds and certain death for the sake of family, home
and country. In Last Stands, Walsh writes about battles in which a
small group faced overwhelming odds, and all too often died to the
last man - battles like Thermopylae, the Ronceveaux Pass, the
Alamo, the siege of Malta, Little Big Horn, Stalingrad, Rorke's
Drift, and the Warsaw Ghetto - explaining why they were fought,
what their ultimate outcome was, and their afterlife in history,
myth and culture.
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