The end of everything how wars descend into annihilation
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--somet...
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New York :
Basic Books,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: how civilizations disappear
- Hope, danger's comforter: the obliteration of classical Thebes (December 335 BC)
- The wages of vengeance: the destruction of Carthage and Punic civilization in Africa (149-146 BC)
- Deadly delusions: the fall of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantines (Spring 1453)
- Imperial hubris: the annihilation of the Aztec empire (Summer 1521)
- Epilogue: how the unimaginable becomes the inevitable.
