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Title: What's with Victor?
Review: I will say up front that Victor Davis Hanson has written so very good books on the ancient Greeks, but what's with him on this one? He has some good ideas, but to claim that the crackpot Sherman was fighting to end tyranny makes me wonder if Hanson's head was full full of his family wine when he wrote this. Sherman could have been tried for war crimes according to the laws of war in his own time. Sure, he was a pioneer in total warfare, just as Lenin and Stalin were in mass murder.Sherman was an insane scum-dog, nothing more. Had his side lost he would be held in the same regard as other desperate losers such as Hitler. The real fighters of tyranny in Sherman's day were the citizens of the South who had to endure his uncivilised methods of behaving towards women and children, both black and white. Stick to what you know Hanson; you are lost on this one! Sheesh!
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