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An Autumn of War Victor Hanson is a national treasure. No one has written with such great prescience about the present war or more accurately predicted the course of events, on the fighting front, at home, and around the world. " Donald Kagan More.... |
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Between War and Peace |
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The Wars of the Ancient Greeks |
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Why the West Has Won |
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Carnage and Culture
A provocative look at occidental aggression...precise, forceful writing, sets it apart from the season's secondary–sourced, battle–baseed military histories. Hanson's direct, literate style and his evenhandedness should appeal to the liberalist middle of the left and right alike. More... |
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Fields Without Dreams
"So detailed, so angry and funny, that it will surely find a lasting readership." |
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The Land Was Everything
Hanson's memoir, informed by almost three thousand years of Western history, is passionate, confrontational, and bracingly apocalyptic. As the era of the family farm ends, perhaps it is true that a certain strain of rural literature where life and death are at issue and drama are hardly mitigated by culture, is also ending. More. . . |
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Who Killed Homer
Juvenalian ridicule, Ciceronian argument, and Cato-like censure animate a lively defense of the deadest of dead languages and dead white European males. Cynicism, skepticism, and invective are all Greek and Latin concepts, as Hanson and Heath remind their readers while ruthlessly employing the same in this debate over the decline and fall of Classics. More. . . |
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Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle Experience
In ancient Greece, men dressed themselves in armor, armed themselves with pikes, stood shoulder to shoulder eight ranks deep facing another group of similarly armed and arrayed soldiers, and then charged into each other with homicidal intent. The resulting carnage was horrific. |
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Mexifornia
Hanson is immensely sympathetic to poor Mexicans, however, and the most powerful chapter here outlines the harried life of the illegal alien. But he hates to see the ordered culture in which he grew up drowned. . .More. . . |
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The Other Greeks
Hanson's informed exploration of the crucial role of the small farmer in the creation of Greek civilization is a much-needed reminder that the artistic and intellectual splendor of Athens' great age did not spring to life fully formed, like Athena from the head of Zeus. . . More. . . |
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Ripples of Battle
Each human life has an impact on others, creating ripples that eventually affect future generations. Here, Hanson (classics, California State Univ., Fresno; The Western Way of War) argues that the outcomes of certain battles have had far-reaching effects on American culture. . . More. . . |
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The Soul of Battle
An eloquent reminder that democracies under great captains, facing enemies challenging the essence of their cultures, cam make war at levels beyond the worst nightmares of their warrior opponents. More. . . |
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Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece
Hanson's success in this results in an admirably short work that is full of interest, not just for classical scholars but also for military, agriculture, and environmental historians. More. . |
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The Western Way of War
[Hanson's] vivid style and meticulous combing of the ancient literary, archaeological, and epigraphical sources have produced a near masterpiece of historical imagination and reconstruction. More. . . |
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