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A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era 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…
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How can a civilization be abruptly destroyed?
In The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation, acclaimed military historian Victor Davis Hanson posits how an imperialistic power through catastrophic defeat mingled with hubris, failing resources, technological disparities, inequities in war, and naiveté—like underestimating the prowess and determination of one’s foe—can rapidly perish.
For proof, VDH analyzes how the total military, cultural, and societal losses of four empires—Alexander’s razing of Thebes, Rome’s obliteration of Carthage, Islam’s reordering of Constantinople, and Spain’s erasure of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan—resulted in their abrupt disappearance.
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