THE END OF EVERYHING
Newly updated for the paperback edition, this instant bestseller explains how and why some societies chose to 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, now with an extended conclusion, 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.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
HANSON VICTOR D.
Victor Davis Hanson Fowler, California, 1953 es historiador militar, clasicista y comentarista político estadounidense. Profesor emérito de Clásicos en la Universidad Estatal de California, Fresno, es también investigador principal en la Institución Hoover de la Universidad de Stanford. Especialista en la Antigua Grecia, se dio a conocer con Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece. Ha escrito extensamente sobre historia militar, cultura clásica y política contemporánea en medios como The New York Times y National Review. En 2007 recibió la Medalla Nacional de Humanidades. Su obra une erudición académica con análisis de la actualidad.
