age ~60
from Elba, AL
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 fighti...
Author
Victor D. Hanson
Binding
Paperback
Pages
544
Publisher
Anchor
ISBN #
0385720386
EAN Code
9780385720380
ISBN #
17
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 cen...
Author
Victor Davis Hanson
Binding
Paperback
Pages
464
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
ISBN #
1608193543
EAN Code
9781608193547
ISBN #
15
Appeasement defined the global conflicts of the 20th century. Time after time, America and other forces for freedom and democracy withheld their power in efforts to appease the most evil regimes in recent history. Over and over again, the policy of appeasement has ended in disaster. Now, conservativ...
Author
Victor Hanson
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
114
Publisher
PJ Media, LLC
ISBN #
14
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, "...
Author
Victor Davis Hanson
Binding
Paperback
Pages
272
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
ISBN #
1608194108
EAN Code
9781608194100
ISBN #
13
The Decline and Fall of California: From Decadence to Destruction collects Victor Davis Hanson’s best writing on California’s crisis of culture. Focusing on three themes with enduring relevance—water, immigration, and the rural way of life—Hanson deftly dissects the ruins of the Golden State. Califo...
Author
Victor Davis Hanson
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
133
Publisher
PJ Media, LLC
ISBN #
12
Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals (Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus) ...
Author
Victor Davis Hanson
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
ISBN #
160819342X
EAN Code
9781608193424
ISBN #
11
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, bot...
Author
Victor Davis Hanson
Binding
Paperback
Pages
150
Publisher
Encounter Books
ISBN #
1594032173
EAN Code
9781594032172
ISBN #
7
With straightforward advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, the authors show how we might still save classics and the Greeks for future generations. Who Killed Homer? is must reading for anyone who agrees that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the beauty and perils of our ow...
Author
Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath
Binding
Paperback
Pages
323
Publisher
Encounter Books
ISBN #
1893554260
EAN Code
9781893554269
ISBN #
6
Victor Davis, CM (February 10, 1964 November 13, 1989) was a Canadian Olympic and world champion swimmer, a well known breaststroker from Canada.
ISBN #
1