historical buildings, monuments, and works of art? Victory on the battlefield was far different than a victory in the preservation of mankind’s cultural legacy, and the results would be measured far differently, too. Sometimes Stout felt he was fighting another war entirely, a war within a war, a backward-circling eddy in a downward-rushing stream. What if we win the war, he thought, but lose the last five hundred years of our cultural history on our watch?
