The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation South Asia her father's right-hand man

her father's right-hand man

It focuses on the leadership of Imam Shamil and his unification of Daghestan and Chechen tribes in a long struggle for independence

and Dewey—is "a delight" ( The New York Times ) and remains one of the most important books of our time

and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms

following an attack on his offices by the Pakistani Taliban

The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation South Asia her father's right-hand manNew York Timesbestselling historian Victor Davis Hanson charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, warning that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time. War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilizationsometimes to the breaking point. In The End of Everything, Hanson narrates sieges and sackings from antiquity to the New World, showing how