Victor Davis: 35 books
The Savior Generals
How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Stirring portraits of five commanders whose dynamic leadership changed the course of war and history by prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson.
"Victor Davis Hanson has written another outstanding and eye-opening book"--The Washington Examiner
Prominent military historian...
The End of Sparta
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
In this sweeping and deeply imagined historical novel, acclaimed classicist Victor Davis Hanson re-creates the battles of one of the greatest generals of ancient Greece, Epaminondas. At the Battle of Leuktra, his Thebans crushed the fearsome army of Sparta that had enslaved its neighbors for two centuries.
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The Father of Us All
War and History, Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Victor Davis Hanson has long been acclaimed as one of our leading scholars of ancient history. In recent years he has also become a trenchant voice on current affairs, bringing a historian's deep knowledge of past conflicts to bear on the crises of the present, from 9/11 to Iran. "War," he writes,...
L'arte occidentale della guerra
Descrizione di una battaglia nella Grecia classica
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Si narra che, quando gli fu suggerito di attaccare i persiani di notte per coglierli impreparati, Alessandro Magno rispose sdegnato: «La strada che indichi è quella dei banditi e dei ladri, il cui unico fine è l’inganno. Preferisco rammaricarmi della sorte avversa anziché provar vergogna per...
Carnage and Culture
Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting...
Mexifornia
A State of Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Victor Davis Hanson locates the cause of our immigration quagmire in the opportunistic coalition that stymies immigration reform and, even worse, stifles any honest discussion of the present crisis. Conservative corporations, contractors and agribusiness demand cheap wage labor from Mexico, whatever...
by Victor Davis Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
An instant New York Times bestseller: From an award-winning historian and regular Fox contributor, the true story of how Donald Trump has become one of the most successful presidents in history -- and why America needs him now more than ever
In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and...
A War Like No Other
How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing...
by Victor Davis Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
The effects of war refuse to remain local: they persist through the centuries, sometimes in unlikely ways far removed from the military arena. In Ripples of Battle,the acclaimed historian Victor Davis Hanson weaves wide-ranging military and cultural history with his unparalleled gift for battle narrative...
The Second World Wars
How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian
World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma...
Between War and Peace
Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In his acclaimed collection An Autumn of War, the scholar and military historian Victor Davis Hanson expressed powerful and provocative views of September 11 and the ensuing war in Afghanistan. Now, in these challenging new essays, he examines the world’s ongoing war on terrorism, from America to...
by Victor Davis Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1998
The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Almost all accounts of ancient history assume that farming and fighting were critical events in the lives of the citizenry. Yet never before have we had a...
by Victor Davis Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In this revealing broadside, Victor Davis Hanson explains how President Obama has imprinted his domestic ideology of victimhood onto a therapeutic, Carter-inspired foreign policy. In Obama’s vision, the United State renounces its role as a defender of the postwar order and instead becomes an agent...
The Western Way of War
Infantry Battle in Classical Greece
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics--that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens--but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambush, skirmish, maneuver, or combat between individual...