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Publisher
Bombardier Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"[The author] recounts the history of conflict between Islam and the West through the lives of eight legendary men--Godfrey of Bouillon, El Cid, Richard Lionheart, Saint Ferdinand, Saint Louis, John Hunyadi, Skanderbeg, and Vlad the Impaler"--Flap page 1 of dust jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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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 annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling...
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