The End of Everything by Victor Davis Hanson | Book Reviews with Dr. Stephen Chavura
January 8, 2025
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as posted by the channelThe End of Everything by historian Victor Davis Hanson explores four case studies of civilisational annihilation at the hands of a rival enemy. Hanson explores the annihilation of the ancient Greek city of Thebes by the Macedonians commanded by Alexander the Great, of Carthage by the Romans, the Christian Byzantine Empire by the Muslim Ottomans, and the Aztecs by the Spanish.
The book seeks to answer several questions that arise out of these historical events: how do civilisations become so vulnerable to annihilation? What mistakes do they make in the great existential showdown? What are the signs that a civilisation is so vulnerable? And what can the West learn from all of this as we face an uncertain future?
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is a nationally syndicated columnist and has written many books on ancient and modern warfare. His most recent books are The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation and The Case for Trump: 2024 Edition.
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