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1	The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War more books like this by Thucydides, Robert B Strassler (Editor), Victor Davis Hanson (Introduction by) add to wishlist This revised edition of Richard Crawley's classic 1874 translation is enhanced with more than 100 maps, extensive annotations, brief biographies of important figures, and invaluable historical, political, and cultural background. see all copies from $8.59! new only from $14.25! \| SVS
2	A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian who has written on wars both ancient and modern. (He is also said to be a Washington insider and Bushcon.) In A WAR LIKE NO OTHER he tells the story of the long war between Athens and Sparta, which we know about primarily from the great historian Thucydides. Applying contemporary terms ... see all copies from $6.79! new only from $10.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War more books like this by Robert B Strassler (Editor), Victor Davis Hanson (Introduction by) add to wishlist Much of our knowledge of the Peloponnesian War--the 27-year conflict between Athens and Sparta--is derived from this classic text. Sparta emerged victorious, and it dominated Greece for several decades afterward. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $28.62! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist In this study of key battles in military history from Ancient Greece through the War in Vietnam, a historian compares the characteristics and techniques of Western armies with those of other world cultures. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $11.09! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist A classicist examines three battles from history, explains them in depth, and draws lessons from them for today's warriors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Al Qaeda Reader more books like this by Raymond Ibrahim (Translator), Victor Davis Hanson (Introduction by) add to wishlist Westerners from across the political spectrum will be fascinated and enlightened by this volume's insights into the nature of Islamic texts and the ways in which al Qaeda has used these texts to manufacture hatred against America's civilization and way of life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Mexifornia: A State of Becoming more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist This book is part history, part political analysis and part memoir. It is an intensely personal book about what has changed in California over the last quarter century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath add to wishlist An account of classical education in ancient Greece. The authors are renowned scholars of ancient Greece who maintain that contemporary emphasis on the failings of Greek society of the pre-Christian period--slavery, misogyny, homosexuality, etc.--have blinded many modern readers to the beauties of ancient literature and art. see all copies from $3.51! new only from $11.96! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The western way of war : infantry battle in Classical Greece more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist Second Edition. 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 of the ... see all copies from $3.37! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist In this study of key battles in military history from Ancient Greece through the War in Vietnam, a historian compares the characteristics and techniques of Western armies with those of other world cultures. see all copies from $5.95! new only from $36.74! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Land Was Everything: Letters from an American Farmer more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson, Jane Smiley (Foreword by) add to wishlist A professor of classics who is also a fifth-generation farmer brings both perspectives to this treatise on how farming--and the family farm in particular--has been and remains essential to the American republic. see all copies from $8.90! new only from $44.72! \| first editions
12 view cover	Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist During the 1980s, 2,000 family farms went out of business every week. Fields Without Dreams tells Hanson's passionate, angry, loving, and lyrical story. A fifth-generation California vine and fruit grower, Hanson and his family faced an overwhelming personal crisis when the great "raisin boom" of the 1970s was followed by the great "raisin crash" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.90! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	300: The Art of the Film: A Zack Snyder Film more books like this by Zack Snyder, Victor Davis Hanson (Foreword by), Tara DiLullo (Text by) add to wishlist What does it mean to turn one of the great graphic novels of our time into a major motion picture? In 1998, Frank Miller shook the comics world with his groundbreaking series "300". Marking Miller's first collaboration with artist Lynn Varley ("Ronin", "The Dark Knight Returns") in over a decade, "300" was a gritty reimagining of a battle in which ... see all copies from $3.55! new only from $8.98! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	History of Warfare: The Wars of the Ancient Greeks more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist Western warfare as we understand it today has its foundations in the warfare of the ancient Greeks. Regardless of terrain or troop strength, ancient Greek armies historically maintained battlefield superiority. This volume covers the development of warfare in Greece from the heroic age of city-states to the coming of Rome. It looks at the ... see all copies from $4.98! new only from $11.19! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist A classicist examines three historic military marches: Epaminonda's march against Sparta; Sherman's march to the sea in the American Civil War; and Patton's race to the Rhine during World War II. He argues against conventional historical readings of the means by which the general achieved their ends. Hanson draws the lesson that, in the cause of ... see all copies from $5.74! new only from $45.00! \| first editions
16 view cover	An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist Written by a professor of Classics, the essays in this collection are in response to the events of September 11, 2001. Professor Hanson draws lessons from military history--Ancient Greece, the Civil War, etc.--to support the war on terror, and he chastises those in academia and the media for what he sees as their misguided dissent. The essays ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Why the West has won : carnage and culture from Salamis to Vietnam more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist A brilliant history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success. Instead of weighing up the West through its cultural and literary accomplishments. Hanson engages with the much starker record of the Western battlefield. In place of The Great Books, he studies The Great Battles, and offers ... see all copies from $19.76! new only from $26.46! \| first editions
18 view cover	Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist Both a farmer and a professor of Greek, Hanson locates the source of our political and personal values in ancient Greek culture. He reminds us that the society that invented limited democracy, autonomy for the individual, and military and judicial preservation of property was motivated to do so all for the sake of the small farmer. The author ... see all copies from $10.33! new only from $35.94! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, Revised Edition more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist This text provides a systematic review of Greek agriculture and warfare, and describes the relationship between these two important aspects of life in ancient communities. The author gives particular attention to agronomic as well as military details. This study shows that attacks on agriculture rarely resulted in famines or permanent agrarian ... see all copies from $7.71! new only from $29.94! \| SVS
20 view cover	The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's more books like this by Heather Mac Donald, Victor Davis Hanson, Steven Malanga add to wishlist Undoubtedly the United States needs a liberal and welcoming immigration policy, geared to the needs and interests of the nation. In this urgent new book, three astute observers argue that we have lost control of our southern border, so that the vast majority of our immigrants are now illegal Mexicans. Poor, uneducated, and unskilled, these ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.78! \| first editions \| SVS
21	McCracken's Removable partial prosthodontics. more books like this by William L. McCracken, Davis Henderson, Victor L. Steffel add to wishlist see all copies from $2.34!
22 view cover	Between War and Peace: Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist 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. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.58! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, Bruce S Thornton add to wishlist With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central if beleagured discipline -- classics -- and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves -- their careerist ambitions, incessant self ... see all copies from $3.25! new only from $15.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Wars of the ancient Greeks. more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist Western warfare as we understand it has its foundations in the warfare of the ancient Greeks. This volume covers the development of warfare in Greece, from the heroic age of the city-states, to the coming of Rome. It looks at the social, cultural and economic background of warmaking. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.20!
25 view cover	The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist 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 the ... see all copies from $7.25! new only from $9.70! \| SVS

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