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A review by scipio_africanus
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power by Victor Davis Hanson
4.0
(3 stars)
Im about halfway through. He repeats himself ALOT.
Words you will see a shocking amount of times:
shock battle
shock troops
Kind of a snooze, not much detail on the battles, and his ideas could have been summed up in one chapter really. I find his perspective interesting, but he really does put too much emphasis on the classical and really does discount the Christian element in the West's rise to military predominance in its embracing of reason and science.
Update:
(4 stars)
Finished the book last night. I think I'll bump it up to 4 stars. the second half starting at Tenochtitlán really was an interesting read, and covered much that I'd never read about yet. Despite what other reviews say, and combining everything else I've read about the rise of Western civilization, I think his thesis holds up decently well tho some of his statementa (particularly about the birth of capitalism) were really accurate.
Im about halfway through. He repeats himself ALOT.
Words you will see a shocking amount of times:
shock battle
shock troops
Kind of a snooze, not much detail on the battles, and his ideas could have been summed up in one chapter really. I find his perspective interesting, but he really does put too much emphasis on the classical and really does discount the Christian element in the West's rise to military predominance in its embracing of reason and science.
Update:
(4 stars)
Finished the book last night. I think I'll bump it up to 4 stars. the second half starting at Tenochtitlán really was an interesting read, and covered much that I'd never read about yet. Despite what other reviews say, and combining everything else I've read about the rise of Western civilization, I think his thesis holds up decently well tho some of his statementa (particularly about the birth of capitalism) were really accurate.