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The End of Everything

By Hanson, Victor Davis

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The End of Everything

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"War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization -- sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling the end of political systems, cultures, and epochs. Though much has changed over the millennia, human nature remains the same. Modern societies are not immune from the horror of a war of extinction. In The End of Everything, military historian Victor Davis Hanson narrates a series of sieges and sackings that span the age of antiquity to the conquest of the New World to show how societies descend into barbarism and obliteration. In the stories of Thebes, Carthage, Constantinople, and Tenochtitlan, he depicts war's drama, violence, and folly. Highlighting the naivete that plagued the vanquished and the wrath that justified mass slaughter, Hanson delivers a sobering call to contemporary readers to heed the lessons of obliteration lest we blunder into catastrophe once again."--
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2024-05-07
Publication Date:
2024-05-07
Publisher:
Basic Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1541673522
ISBN13:
9781541673526
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
560 g
Height:
238 cm
Width:
161 cm
Thickness:
33 cm
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