"In recent years, we have witnessed man's inhumanity toward man that many thought had been consigned to the distant past. In The End of Everything, Victor Davis Hanson tells compelling and harrowing stories of how civilizations perished. He helps us consider contemporary affairs in light of that history, think about the unthinkable, and recognize the urgency of trying to prevent our own demise."--H.R. McMaster, author of Battlegrounds
"What a paragon and a powerhouse is Victor Davis Hanson! The hymnal tells us of the fate of 'Earth's proud empires' and the poet reminds us of what will happen to 'our pomp of yesterday, ' yet it takes an historian of Hanson's intellectual caliber to explain how and why civilizations are annihilated in war, with example after well-researched and cogently written example. As well as Hanson the historian, however, here too is Hanson the philosopher, with his insightful take on how human nature has failed to adapt to our ultra-technological age. Readers will be shocked quite how often total military, cultural and societal extirpation happens in in our species' story. We need to learn from this groundbreaking book how to stop it happening to us."--Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill