Victor Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson was educated at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and received his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University. He farmed full-time for five years before returning to academia in 1984 to initiate a Classics program at California State University, Fresno. Currently, he is Professor of Classics there and Coordinator of the Classical Studies Program.
Hanson has written articles, editorials, and reviews for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Daily Telegraph, International Herald Tribune, American Heritage, City Journal, American Spectator, National Review, Policy Review, The Wilson Quarterly, The Weekly Standard...
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The Western Way of War
eBook | pages | Knopf | History - Military - United States; History - Military; History - Military - Strategy
978-0-307-83155-2 (0-307-83155-8)
May 1, 2013 | $21.99
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 heroes, the Greeks...
Written by Victor Hanson
eBook | pages | Knopf | History - Military - United States; History - Military; History - Military - Strategy
978-0-307-83155-2 (0-307-83155-8)
May 1, 2013 | $21.99
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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 heroes, the Greeks...
A War Like No Other
eBook | 416 pages | Random House | History - Ancient - Greece; History - Military
978-1-58836-490-6 (1-58836-490-9)
November 30, 2011 | $13.99
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 work to date, A War Like...
Written by Victor Hanson
eBook | 416 pages | Random House | History - Ancient - Greece; History - Military
978-1-58836-490-6 (1-58836-490-9)
November 30, 2011 | $13.99
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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 work to date, A War Like...
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An Autumn of War
eBook | 240 pages | Anchor | History - Military
978-0-307-42476-1 (0-307-42476-6)
December 18, 2007 | $12.99
On September 11, 2001, hours after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the eminent military historian Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article in which he asserted that the United States, like it or not, was now at war and had the moral right to respond with force. An Autumn...
Written by Victor Hanson
eBook | 240 pages | Anchor | History - Military
978-0-307-42476-1 (0-307-42476-6)
December 18, 2007 | $12.99
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On September 11, 2001, hours after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the eminent military historian Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article in which he asserted that the United States, like it or not, was now at war and had the moral right to respond with force. An Autumn...
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Between War and Peace
eBook | 304 pages | Random House | History - Military - Iraq War (2003-); History - Military - Afghan War (2001-)
978-0-307-43069-4 (0-307-43069-3)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
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 Iraq, from Europe to...
Written by Victor Hanson
eBook | 304 pages | Random House | History - Military - Iraq War (2003-); History - Military - Afghan War (2001-)
978-0-307-43069-4 (0-307-43069-3)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
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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 Iraq, from Europe to...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Carnage and Culture
eBook | 544 pages | Anchor | History - Military
978-0-307-42518-8 (0-307-42518-5)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
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 forces in the world.
Looking...
Written by Victor Hanson
eBook | 544 pages | Anchor | History - Military
978-0-307-42518-8 (0-307-42518-5)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
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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 forces in the world.
Looking...
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The Cold War
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | History - Military; Political Science - International Relations - Diplomacy
978-0-8129-6716-6 (0-8129-6716-X)
November 7, 2006 | $22.00
Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering...
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | History - Military; Political Science - International Relations - Diplomacy
978-0-8129-6716-6 (0-8129-6716-X)
November 7, 2006 | $22.00
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Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering...
Also available as an
eBook.
A War Like No Other
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | History - Ancient - Greece; History - Military
978-0-8129-6970-2 (0-8129-6970-7)
September 12, 2006 | $21.00
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 work to date, A War Like...
Written by Victor Hanson
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | History - Ancient - Greece; History - Military
978-0-8129-6970-2 (0-8129-6970-7)
September 12, 2006 | $21.00
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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 work to date, A War Like...
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Ripples of Battle
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor | History - Military
978-0-385-72194-3 (0-385-72194-3)
October 12, 2004 | $19.95
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 as he illuminates the centrality...
Written by Victor Hanson
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor | History - Military
978-0-385-72194-3 (0-385-72194-3)
October 12, 2004 | $19.95
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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 as he illuminates the centrality...
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eBook.
Ripples of Battle
eBook | pages | Anchor | History - Military
978-1-4000-9532-2 (1-4000-9532-8)
October 12, 2004 | $13.99
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 as he illuminates the centrality...
Written by Victor Hanson
eBook | pages | Anchor | History - Military
978-1-4000-9532-2 (1-4000-9532-8)
October 12, 2004 | $13.99
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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 as he illuminates the centrality...
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trade paperback.
The Life of Alexander the Great
Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Modern Library | Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-8129-7133-0 (0-8129-7133-7)
April 13, 2004 | $14.95
In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would...
Written by Plutarch
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden
Introduction by Victor Hanson
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden
Introduction by Victor Hanson
Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Modern Library | Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-8129-7133-0 (0-8129-7133-7)
April 13, 2004 | $14.95
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In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would...
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eBook.
The Life of Alexander the Great
eBook | pages | Modern Library | Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-1-58836-347-3 (1-58836-347-3)
April 13, 2004 | $11.99
In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would...
Written by Plutarch
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden
Introduction by Victor Hanson
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden
Introduction by Victor Hanson
eBook | pages | Modern Library | Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-1-58836-347-3 (1-58836-347-3)
April 13, 2004 | $11.99
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In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Between War and Peace
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | History - Military - Iraq War (2003-); History - Military - Afghan War (2001-)
978-0-8129-7273-3 (0-8129-7273-2)
February 10, 2004 | $21.00
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 Iraq, from Europe to...
Written by Victor Hanson
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | History - Military - Iraq War (2003-); History - Military - Afghan War (2001-)
978-0-8129-7273-3 (0-8129-7273-2)
February 10, 2004 | $21.00
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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 Iraq, from Europe to...
Also available as an
eBook.
Carnage and Culture
Trade Paperback | 544 pages | Anchor | History - Military
978-0-385-72038-0 (0-385-72038-6)
August 27, 2002 | $19.00
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 forces in the world.
Looking...
Written by Victor Hanson
Trade Paperback | 544 pages | Anchor | History - Military
978-0-385-72038-0 (0-385-72038-6)
August 27, 2002 | $19.00
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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 forces in the world.
Looking...
Also available as an
eBook.
An Autumn of War
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Anchor | History - Military
978-1-4000-3113-9 (1-4000-3113-3)
August 13, 2002 | $17.00
On September 11, 2001, hours after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the eminent military historian Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article in which he asserted that the United States, like it or not, was now at war and had the moral right to respond with force. An Autumn...
Written by Victor Hanson
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Anchor | History - Military
978-1-4000-3113-9 (1-4000-3113-3)
August 13, 2002 | $17.00
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On September 11, 2001, hours after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the eminent military historian Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article in which he asserted that the United States, like it or not, was now at war and had the moral right to respond with force. An Autumn...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Soul of Battle
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Anchor | History - Military
978-0-385-72059-5 (0-385-72059-9)
April 17, 2001 | $22.00
Victor David Hanson, author of the highly regarded classic The Western Way of War, presents an audacious and controversial theory of what contributes to the success of military campaigns.
Examining in riveting detail the campaigns of three brilliant generals who led largely untrained forces to victory over tyrannical enemies, Hanson shows how...
Written by Victor Hanson
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Anchor | History - Military
978-0-385-72059-5 (0-385-72059-9)
April 17, 2001 | $22.00
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Victor David Hanson, author of the highly regarded classic The Western Way of War, presents an audacious and controversial theory of what contributes to the success of military campaigns.
Examining in riveting detail the campaigns of three brilliant generals who led largely untrained forces to victory over tyrannical enemies, Hanson shows how...
