Victor Davis Hanson: 17 books

Book cover of The End of Sparta
by Victor Davis Hanson
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. We...
Book cover of The Savior Generals

The Savior Generals

How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq

by Victor Davis Hanson
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...
Book cover of The Father of Us All

The Father of Us All

War and History, Ancient and Modern

by Victor Davis Hanson
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,...
Book cover of L'arte occidentale della guerra

L'arte occidentale della guerra

Descrizione di una battaglia nella Grecia classica

by Victor Davis Hanson
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...
Book cover of A War Like No Other

A War Like No Other

How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

by Victor Davis Hanson
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...
Book cover of Mexifornia

Mexifornia

A State of Becoming

by Victor Davis Hanson
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...
Book cover of Between War and Peace

Between War and Peace

Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq

by Victor Davis Hanson
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...
Book cover of The Western Way of War

The Western Way of War

Infantry Battle in Classical Greece

by Victor Davis Hanson
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...
Book cover of Other Greeks

Other Greeks

The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western

by Victor Davis Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995

Everyone has been taught that the Greek city-state is the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. For generations, scholars have focused on the rise of the city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture. Now Victor Hanson, the author of several studies...
Book cover of Carnage and Culture

Carnage and Culture

Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power

by Victor Davis Hanson
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...
Book cover of The Case for Trump
by Victor Davis Hanson
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...
Book cover of Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, Revised edition
by Victor Davis Hanson
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...
Book cover of How The Obama Administration Threatens Our National Security
by Victor Davis Hanson
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...
Book cover of Ripples of Battle
by Victor Davis Hanson
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...
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