Liberty's Lieutenants

In 490 BC the Athenian hoplite militia crashed into a horde of Persian conscripts as they disembarked from their ships onto the beaches of Marathon. Beginning the rivalry between the eastern and western worlds; the war between the Greeks city states and the Persian Empire was an existential struggle for the life of liberty. That struggle continues to this day.

Conquest, oppression, liberation, and redemption; humanity at its worst, and finest. Every generation needs its heroes. From Xenophon to Brutus, from Wallace to Washington, from Wellesley to Sharon, the greatest soldiers in history are brought back to life. With in-depth analysis of their lives, the battles and wars in which they fought, Liberty's Lieutenants takes the reader from the beaches of Marathon to the Shenandoah Valley, and the deserts of the Sinai, answering the question of why we live in a free world.