Hanson, Victor Davis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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Summary: 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 point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2024
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Summary: Surveys the one hundred most decisive battles in world history from the Battle of Megiddo in 1469 B.C. to Desert Storm, 1991.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2001