‘Woe to the Vanquished’
The Celtic Holocaust by Dan Carlin
© 2018 James LaFond
JAN/22/18
Dan Carlin is the master of audio historical narrative and he has done a very keen job of pealing back the recorded layers of sissy postmodern academics, jingoistic modern colonials and rapacious ancient Romans.
The Roman business of taking out a few million “war mad” “headhunters” of the “warlike northern European type” was grim indeed. The siege of Alesia was a marvel of military adaptability. Dan’s appreciation for the physicality and psychology of ancient warfare is excellent. His inclusion of the ancient animosity between the Gauls and Romans and the original sack of Rome in 390 B.C. was well-considered and placed. Do note that the Hellenic world also suffered terribly in the 260s B.C. This invasion penetrated into Anatolia, near Pergamon, was finally defeated. Famous Hellenistic art of a Gallic warrior killing himself and his wife reflected a Hellenic sympathy for these people, who were adopted into the empire.
son of a lesser god
taboo you
under the god of things
dark, distant futures
fate
within leviathan’s craw
the greatest lie ever sold
sorcerer!
menthol rampage
beasts of aryas
wife—
songs of aryas
the first boxers
all-power-fighting
logic of steel
the combat space
predation
hate
fiction anthology one
winter of a fighting life
advent america
z-pill forever
broken dance
into leviathan’s maw
cracker-boy
logic of force
time & cosmos
thriving in bad places
uncle satan
song of the secret gardener
honor among men
the fighting edge
fanatic
the year the world took the z-pill
when you're food
the sunset saga complete
solo boxing
by the wine dark sea
barbarism versus civilization
the gods of boxing
your trojan whorse
book of nightmares
blue eyed daughter of zeus
orphan nation
on the overton railroad
night city
sons of aryas
ranger?
on combat
the greatest boxer
let the world fend for itself
masculine axis
triumph
america the brutal
the lesser angels of our nature