A Rage to Conquer: Twelve Battles That Changed the Course of Western History
By Michael Walsh
St. Martin's Press; hardcover, 400 pages; $32.00; available today, Tuesday, January 28th
Michael Walsh is the author of Last Stands and more than fifteen other novels and non-fiction books. He was the classical music critic and a foreign correspondent for Time magazine from 1981 to 1997, and he received the 2004 American Book Awards prize for fiction for his gangster novel, And All the Saints. His popular columns for National Review that he wrote under a pseudonym, David Kahane, were developed into the books, Rules for Radical Conservatives. Two of his books, The Devil's Pleasure and The Fiery Angel, examine the enemies, heroes, triumphs, and struggles of Western Civilization from the ancient past to the present time.