by Terry Scambray New Oxford Review A Review of Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False, Thomas Nagel. Oxford University Press, 2012. 128 pages. $24.95 Share This
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Five generals who turned the tide. by Victorino Matus The Weekly Standard The military historian Victor Davis Hanson was in Washington, D.C., to promote his latest book, The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost—From Ancient Greece to Iraq. Share This
A chapter from Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece Edited by Donald Kagan & Gregory F. Viggiano Share This
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by Mark Moyar Wall Street Journal For a police chief, keeping the streets of Beverly Hills safe will probably never qualify as an act of great leadership, if only because the task itself lacks a certain degree of difficulty. Share This
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Private Papers After the battle of Leuktra, and the defeat of Sparta, the Thebans parley with the Spartan general Lichas, who remains as defiant as ever: Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The End of Sparta [2] comes out today. Now and then I will post excerpts from the novel. Share This
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Private Papers The End of Sparta was released this week. Here is an excerpt: The Boiotians vote to invade Sparta. But before the assembly breaks up the old philosopher Alkidamas speaks to the crowd: Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson VDH was asked to do an introduction for a new edition of E.B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed, a memoir from the Pacific theater of World War II. Share This
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The definitive books on the battles of the 20th century. by Victor Davis Hanson WSJ Opinion Journal 1. “The Price of Glory” by Alistair Horne (St. Martin’s, 1963). Over the course of 10 months in 1916, the French and Germans killed or wounded about 1.25 million of their best soldiers in a few wooded acres