The End of Everything by Victor Davis Hanson

This book’s full title is The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation. This is a fascinating book talking about 3 civilizations coming to an end. The civilizations he talks about are Thebes (in Greece), Carthage (north Africa), Constantinople (in what is now Turkey) and Tenochtitlan (Aztecs in Mexico). He thinks we should learn from the past. Of course, what we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.

There is a review at Writers Reps that outlines the book. There is an interesting review and quote by Maurine Proctor on Later Day Saint site. There is a short review on Kirkus Reviews. There is a good review on The New Criterion.

There is an interview by at Hoover Institution of the author by Peter Robinson. Megyn Kelly interviews Victor Davis Hanson on YouTube. This is a short interview of just over 8 minutes. It ends with advert to buy gold? I would not go there. There is an interview on OAN. This is an interview by John Anderson. They start talking about US politics. He starts talking about talking about his book about 1 hour in.

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Persians by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

This book’s full title is Persians: The Age of the Great Kings. We in the western world generally do not have a positive attitude towards the Persians and this is mainly due to the Greek historians and the Roman Empire. The Greeks and the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire were enemies and fought a number of battles. I love reading history. I found this book interesting and it adds to my knowledge of world history.

I found a great review of this book at Bryn Mawr Classical review. Review is by Farnoosh Shamsianat of Leipzig University. There is a short review at Publishers Weekly. Ali Ansari on Engelsberg Ideas writes an interesting and rather negative review of this book.

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones speaks at York University Questions start around 46 minutes in. This is a short video on YouTube of Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones talking about Cyrus the Great. This next video is an interview by Erica on YouTube of the author. She is a young woman interviewing the author and it is quite interesting.

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.

The Dragons and the Snakes by David Kilcullen

This book’s full title is The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West. I found this a fascinating book. I do not usually read such books because it is about war rather than straight history. But this is a well-written and as I said fascinating book about how war techniques change over time.

The dragons in this book are Russian, China, Iran, and North Koreas. The snakes are terrorist groups, like the Taliban, Al Qaida, ISIS etc. He talks how the dragons and snakes are changing how they fight based on how America fights. He talks about how the fighting is evolving, changing, and adapting.

There are some good reviews on Amazon. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the reviews. I found Will Selber’s review of this book on The Strategy Bridge interesting. He talks about what he likes and dislikes of this book. It is always interesting to read a critique of a book and this is what this review is. This probably the best review. Micholas Underwood on Small Wars Journal gives a rather positive review of this book

Clifford May moderator for a Foundation for Defense of Democracies. David Kilcullen starts discussion 3 minutes in. The site The Reading Stack talk about this book and review starts around 3:45 minutes in. David Kilcullen is interviews on United States Studies Centre in July 2020. This is just a discussion with David Kilcullen rather than a discussion on this book.

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.