Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership

By Keith Yellin

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent combat, Keith Yellin offers an interdisciplinary look into the rhetorical discourse that has played a prominent role in warfare, history, and popular culture from antiquity to the present day. Battle Exhortation focuses on one of the most time-honored forms of motivational communication, the encouraging speech of military commanders, to offer a pragmatic and scholarly evaluation of how persuasion contributes to combat leadership and military morale.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611170540
• ISBN13: 9781611170542
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"