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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraphs
Prologue: The Professional is Personal
Introduction: To Die For
Chapter I: “Go Tell the Spartans”: The Battle of Thermopylae (480 B.C.)
Chapter II: “Varus, Give Me Back My Legions”: Cannae (216 B.C.) and the Teutoburg Forest (9 A.D.)
Chapter III: “We have it in Our Power to Die Honorably as Free Men”: Masada (73/74 A.D.) and Warsaw (1943)
Chapter IV: “We Have Come to Rue your Prowess, Roland!”: The Battle of Roncevaux Pass and La Chanson de Roland (778/1115)
Chapter V: “Look at Me. I am Still Alive.”: The Battle of Hastings (1066)
Chapter VI: “I Must Perform Some Action Worthy of a Man”: The Last Stand of the Swiss Guard (1527)
Chapter VII: “Today We Bring Dignity Upon Our Names”: The Siege of Szigetvár (1566)
Chapter VIII: “These aren’t Men, They are Devils!”: The Alamo (1836) and Camarón (1863)
Chapter IX: “Lick ’em Tomorrow, Though”: Grant at Shiloh (1862)
Chapter X: “Big Village”: Custer at the Little Bighorn (1876)
Chapter XI: “Tell Everyone I Died Facing the Enemy”: Rorke’s Drift (1879) and Khartoum (1885)
Chapter XII: “Not One Step Back”: The Battle of Pavlov’s House: Stalingrad, 1942
Epilogue: “Iron Mike”: The Chosin Reservoir, 1950
Notes
Notes: Prologue
Notes: Introduction
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Notes 5
Notes 6
Notes 7
Notes 8
Notes 9
Notes 10
Notes 11
Notes 12
Notes: Epilogue
Notes: Extracts
Acknowledgments
Extracts
Index
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