Victor Davis Hanson, Author . Doubleday $29.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-385-50052-4
"The Western way of war is so lethal precisely because it is so amoral—shackled rarely by concerns of ritual, tradition, religion, or ethics, by anything other than military necessity." Ranging from Salamis in 480 B.C. to the Tet...
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Victor Davis Hanson, Author . Anchor $12 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4000-3113-9
"Why do they hate us?" is the wrong question to ask after September 11, writes Hanson; war and tragedy are to be expected, as the ancients knew. Hanson's classicism informs this collection of essays that appeared mostly on National...
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Victor Davis Hanson, Author . Doubleday $27.50 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-50400-3
With this usefully idiosyncratic and provocative work, Hanson may succeed the late Stephen Ambrose as America's laureate of military history. But where Ambrose's tone is ultimately elegiac, reflecting on the deeds and character of a past "
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Victor Davis Hanson, Author . Random $13.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7273-3
Hanson (An Autumn of War
), who has been compared to John Keegan as a historian of war, doesn't display the objectivity of a scholar here. These 39 previously published essays (35 from National Review Online
) assessing the U.S. war on terrorism
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Victor Davis Hanson, Author . Random $29.95 (397p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6095-5
Hanson (Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece
, etc.) presents an elegant, lucidly written analysis of the 27-year civil war, a "colossal absurdity," that ended in Athens's 5th-century B.C. loss to Sparta and the depletion of...
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Victor Davis Hanson, Author . Bloomsbury Press $25 (259p) ISBN 978-1-60819-165-9
Since 9/11, Davis, director of the Hoover Institution's group on military history and contemporary conflict, has emerged as a major commentator on war making and politics. This anthology brings together 13 of Hanson's essays and reviews,...
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The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny
Victor Davis Hanson, Author Free Press $30 (496p) ISBN 978-0-684-84502-9
Hanson, a scholar of classics as well as of military history (The Western Way of War), depicts three great armies under three great captains: Epaminondas of Thebes, William T. Sherman and George S. Patton. Their enemies--respectively, Sparta, the...
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Victor Davis Hanson, Author Free Press $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-82299-0
We are in the penultimate stage of the death of agrarianism, says the author, a fifth-generation vine and fruit grower. Hanson (The Other Greeks) has written an eloquent and bitter elegy for the American family farm. For more than a century, his...
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Victor Davis Hanson. Bloomsbury, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-1-60819-164-2
Leading classicist Hanson (The Father of Us All) focuses on the Theban defeat of the renowned Spartan army in 371 B.C.E. The hero of the tale is the Theban general Epaminondas, a devotee of Pythagoras and a warrior with unconventional attitudes...
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Victor Davis Hanson. Bloomsbury, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-60819-163-5
Hanson (Makers of Ancient Strategy) begins with a deceptively simple question: “How are wars won or lost?” He cites familiar answers—technology, numbers, contingency—but he asserts that in desperate situations, human leadership still matters. To...
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Victor Davis Hanson. Basic, $35 (720p) ISBN 978-0-465-06698-8
Ancient history specialist Hanson (Hoplites), a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, makes his first foray into WWII history with an examination into why the Allies won and the Axis lost. The book is not a chronological history of the war;...
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Victor Davis Hanson, Author, John Heath, Joint Author Free Press $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-84453-4
""To help one's friends and hurt one's enemies is the central tenet of Archaic Greek morality,"" write the authors. Unfortunately, one would have preferred more of the first and rather less of the second. The authors' ""enemies"" are the orthodoxy-ho
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Victor Davis Hanson, Author, John Heath, Joint Author, Bruce S. Thornton, Joint Author . ISI Books $24.95 (373p) ISBN 978-1-882926-54-1
It has become quite common over the past 20 years for various groups of humanists to cry like prophets in the wilderness over the demise of the classics both in small liberal arts colleges and large state universities. Hanson and Heath (coauthors of
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Victor Davis Hanson, Author, Jane Smiley, Foreword by Free Press $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-684-84501-2
What does the imminent death of the family farm mean to the average American? A great deal, declares Hanson, who as both a farmer and a classics professor (California State University-Fresno) imbues this provocative, eloquent polemic with personal...
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Victor Davis Hanson. Basic, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5416-7354-0
Yes, President Trump is vulgar, petty, cruel, and occasionally incoherent, but he is also a political maestro with an impressive record in office who champions forgotten Americans, argues this enthusiastic apologia. Hanson (The Second World Wars), a
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