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SPARE NO ONE - GABRIEL BAKER TASCHENBUCH

In 146 BC  the armies of the Roman Republic destroyed Carthage and Corinth  two of the most
spectacular cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. It was a display of ruthlessness so
terrible that it shocked contemporaries  leaving behind deep scars and palpable historical
traumas. Yet these twin destructions were not so extraordinary in the long annals of Roman
warfare. In Spare No One  Gabriel Baker convincingly shows that mass violence was vital to
Roman military operations. Indeed  in virtually every war they fought during the third and
second centuries BC  the Roman legions killed and enslaved populations  executed prisoners  and
put cities to the torch. This powerful book reveals that these violent acts were not normally
the handiwork of frenzied soldiers run amok  nor were they spontaneous outbursts of
uncontrolled savagery. On the contrary-and more troublingly-Roman commanders deliberately used
these brutal strategies to achieve their most critical military objectives and political goals.
Bringing long-overdue attention to this little-known aspect of Roman history  Baker paints a
fuller  albeit darker  picture of Roman warfare. He ultimately demonstrates that the atrocities
of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have deep historical precedents. Casting a fresh
light on the strategic use of total war in the ancient world  he reminds us that terror and
mass violence could be the rational policies of men and states long before the modern age.

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