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  | | The Case for Trump(1st Edition) by Victor Davis Hanson Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-7354-0, ISBN: 1-5416-7354-9 "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 political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democr ..." |
 | | A War Like No Other(Reprint) How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2006 by Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-6970-2, ISBN: 0-8129-6970-7 "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 No Other.Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states of Athens and Sparta fought a bloody con ..." |
 | | Carnage and Culture Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power by Victor Davis Hanson Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2002 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-385-72038-0, ISBN: 0-385-72038-6 "Many theories have been offered regarding why Western culture has spread so successfully across the world, with arguments ranging from genetics to superior technology to the creation of enlightened economic, moral, and political systems. In Carnage and Culture, military historian Victor Hanson takes all of these factors into account in making a bold, and sure to be controversial, argument: Westerners are more effective killers ..." |
 | | The Dying Citizen How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America (Hardback) by Victor Davis Hanson Hardcover, Published 2021 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-4753-4, ISBN: 1-5416-4753-X |
 | | The Savior Generals(Reprint) How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq by Victor Davis Hanson Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60819-342-4, ISBN: 1-60819-342-X "Are wars won by the largest armies The most advanced technology The toughest troops All play a role but in the history of warfare we repeatedly find that at certain critical moments the Leadership of a single individual can still determine the outcome The Savior Generals gives us the story of five wars that were all but lost and the five commanders who Transformed defeat into victory Themistocles of Athens who stunned the mighty Persian ..." |
 | | Mexifornia(2nd Edition) A State of Becoming by Victor Davis Hanson Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2007 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-217-2, ISBN: 1-59403-217-3 "Massive illegal immigration from Mexico into California, Victor Davis Hanson writes, "coupled with a loss of confidence in the old melting pot model of transforming newcomers into Americans, is changing the very nature of state. Yet we Californians have been inadequate in meeting this challenge, both failing to control our borders with Mexico and to integrate the new alien population into our mainstream." Part history, part pol ..." |
 | | Fields Without Dreams(1st Edition) Defending the Agrarian Ideal by Victor Davis Hanson Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1997 by Free Press ISBN-13: 978-0-684-83570-9, ISBN: 0-684-83570-3 "Classicist, professor, and farmer Hanson chronicles the decline of small-scale agriculture in the Central Valley of California. He takes his classics seriously, likening the raisin farmers of Modesto to Aeschylus' ideal virtuous man, who "did not wish to seem just, but to be so." He takes modern cultural dictates less seriously: "Is it not odd," he writes, "to rise at dawn with Japanese-, Mexican-, Pakistani-, Armenian-, and Portuguese- ..." |
 | | The Case for Trump(Updated) by Victor Davis Hanson Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2020 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-7355-7, ISBN: 1-5416-7355-7 "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 political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen well ..." |
 | | Wars of the Ancient Greeks (Smithsonian History of Warfare) by Victor Davis Hanson, John Keegan, Vd Hanson Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2004 by Smithsonian Inst Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-58834-189-1, ISBN: 1-58834-189-5 "This account covers a millennium of Greek warfare. With specially commissioned battle maps and illustrations, Victor Davis Hanson takes the reader into the heart of Greek warfare, classical beliefs, and heroic battles. This portrait of ancient Greek culture explains why their approach to fighting was so ruthless and so successful." |
 | | Ripples of Battle(Reprint) How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think by Victor Davis Hanson Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2004 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-385-72194-3, ISBN: 0-385-72194-3 "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 of war in the human experience. The Athenian defeat at Delium in 424 BC brought tactical innovatio ..." |
 | | Between War and Peace(1st Edition) Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq by Victor Davis Hanson Paperback, 282 Pages, Published 2004 by Random House Trade Paperbacks Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7273-3, ISBN: 0-8129-7273-2 "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 Israel, and beyond. In direct language, Hanson portrays an America making progress against Islamic fundamentalism but ham ..." |
 | | An Autumn of War What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism by Victor Davis Hanson Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2002 by Anchor Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3113-9, ISBN: 1-4000-3113-3 "Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2002-8-1 Pages: 218 Publisher: Random House On September 11. 2001. hours after the terrorist attacks onNew York and Washington. the eminent military historian VictorDavis Hanson wrote an article in which he asserted that the UnitedStates. like it or not. was now at war and had the moral right torespond with force. An Autumn of War. which opens with thatfirst essay. will stimulate readers across the ..." |
 | | The End of Everything How Wars Descend Into Annihilation by Victor Davis Hanson 352 Pages, Published 2024 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-7352-6, ISBN: 1-5416-7352-2 "In the stories of Thebes, Carthage, Constantinople, and Tenochtitlan, he depicts war's drama, violence, and folly." |
 | | Who Killed Homer(1st Edition) The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom by Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, Bruce S. Thornton Paperback, 323 Pages, Published 2001 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-893554-26-9, ISBN: 1-893554-26-0 "The answer to the attention-grabbing question posed by classicists Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath in the title of this passionate defense of their field (which is also a damnation of their academic colleagues) is not a pretty one. "It was," they admit sadly, "an inside job." Why, at the end of the 20th century, should we give a hoot in the first place about a brutal, misogynist society that rose to greatness on the back of slaves? ..." |
 | | The Life of Alexander the Great (Modern Library Classics) by John Dryden, Victor Davis Hanson, Arthur Hugh Clough, Quintus Plutarch Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2004 by Modern Library Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7133-0, ISBN: 0-8129-7133-7 "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 make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celeb ..." |
 | | The Second World Wars(1st Edition) How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson Hardcover, 720 Pages, Published 2017 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-06698-8, ISBN: 0-465-06698-4 "A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historianWorld 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 to armor strikes in Libya.The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among d ..." |
 | | The Father of Us All(1st Edition) War and History, Ancient and Modern by Victor Davis Hanson Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2010 by Bloomsbury Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60819-165-9, ISBN: 1-60819-165-6 "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, "is an entirely human enterprise." Ideologies change, technologies develop, new strategies are invented?but human nature is constant across t ..." |
 | | The Western Way of War(2nd Edition) Infantry Battle in Classical Greece by Victor Davis Hanson, John Keegan, Vd Hanson Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-26009-2, ISBN: 0-520-26009-0 "Infantry Battle in Classical GreeceBroschiertes BuchThe 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, or combat between individual heroes, the Greeks of the fifth century B.C. devised a ferocious, brief, and destructive head-o ..." |
 | | The Soul of Battle(Reprint) From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny by Victor Davis Hanson Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2001 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-385-72059-5, ISBN: 0-385-72059-9 "On first glance, The Soul of Battle appears to be three different books: biographies of two well-known generals--Sherman and Patton--and one who is virtually unknown today, the ancient Greek leader Epaminondas. Yet Victor Davis Hanson, a classics professor and author of The Western Way of War, makes a compelling connection between these three men. They were "eccentrics, considered unbalanced or worse by their own superiors" who led dem ..." |
 | | Wars of the Ancient Greeks(6th Edition) (Smithsonian History of Warfare) by Victor Davis Hanson, John Keegan Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2006 by Harpperen ISBN-13: 978-0-06-114208-6, ISBN: 0-06-114208-5 " This brilliant account covers a millennium of Greek warfare. With specially commissioned battle maps and vivid illustrations, Victor Davis Hanson takes the reader into the heart of Greek warfare, classical beliefs, and heroic battles. This colorful portrait of ancient Greek culture explains why their approach to fighting was so ruthless and so successful. Development of the Greek city-state and the rivalries of Athens and Sparta. Ris ..." |
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