The End of Everything: How Wars Descend Into Annihilation by Hanson, Victor Davis

The End of Everything: How Wars Descend Into Annihilation

An instant New York Times bestseller, this "profound book" (Wall Street Journal) charts how and why some...
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Author: Victor Davis Hanson
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Language: English
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The End of Everything: How Wars Descend Into Annihilation by Hanson, Victor Davis

The End of Everything: How Wars Descend Into Annihilation

$48.82

The End of Everything: How Wars Descend Into Annihilation

$48.82
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
An instant New York Times bestseller, this "profound book" (Wall Street Journal) charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time

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.

Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781541673526


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2024

About the Author
Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow in military history at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of over two dozen books, including A War Like No Other, The Second World Wars, and The Dying Citizen. He lives in Selma, California. 

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