CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraphs
  5. PROLOGUE: THE PROFESSIONAL IS PERSONAL
  6. INTRODUCTION: TO DIE FOR
  7. CHAPTER I: “GO TELL THE SPARTANS”
  8. The Battle of Thermopylae (480 B.C.)
  9. CHAPTER II: “VARUS, GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS”
  10. Cannae (216 B.C.) and the Teutoburg Forest (9 A.D.)
  11. CHAPTER III: “WE HAVE IT IN OUR POWER TO DIE HONORABLY AS FREE MEN”
  12. Masada (73/74 A.D.) and Warsaw (1943)
  13. CHAPTER IV: “WE HAVE COME TO RUE YOUR PROWESS, ROLAND!”
  14. The Battle of Roncevaux Pass and La Chanson de Roland (778/1115)
  15. CHAPTER V: “LOOK AT ME. I AM STILL ALIVE.”
  16. The Battle of Hastings (1066)
  17. CHAPTER VI: “I MUST PERFORM SOME ACTION WORTHY OF A MAN”
  18. The Last Stand of the Swiss Guard (1527)
  19. CHAPTER VII: “TODAY WE BRING DIGNITY UPON OUR NAMES”
  20. The Siege of Szigetvár (1566)
  21. CHAPTER VIII: “THESE AREN’T MEN, THEY ARE DEVILS!”
  22. The Alamo (1836) and Camarón (1863)
  23. CHAPTER IX: “LICK ’EM TOMORROW, THOUGH”
  24. Grant at Shiloh (1862)
  25. CHAPTER X: “BIG VILLAGE”
  26. Custer at the Little Bighorn (1876)
  27. CHAPTER XI: “TELL EVERYONE I DIED FACING THE ENEMY”
  28. Rorke’s Drift (1879) and Khartoum (1885)
  29. CHAPTER XII: “NOT ONE STEP BACK”
  30. The Battle of Pavlov’s House: Stalingrad, 1942
  31. EPILOGUE: “IRON MIKE”
  32. The Chosin Reservoir, 1950
  33. NOTES
  34. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  35. EXTRACTS
  36. INDEX
  37. Also by Michael Walsh
  38. About the Author
  39. Copyright