Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other
Chapter 1: Why Sparta Fought Athens
Chapter 10:
1. Ruin?
2. The End of the Great Century?
3. Military Lessons of the War
Daniel Mendelsohn, "Theatres of War: Why the battles over ancient Athens still rage", The New Yorker (January 12, 2004)
Victor Davis Hanson, "Grammatical Gymnastics at the New Yorker Magazine", Private Papers (March 5, 2004) [Hanson's response to Mendelsohn's smear]
from Military History Quarterly (Autumn 2005)
1. The Battle
4. Innovation and the Battlefield
VDH reviews The Ancient Messenians
"The Western military tradition assures Western states that they could, if they so wish, become almost immune from foreign attack. Consensual governments can, in extremis, craft security legislation consistent with constitutional principles that will protect citizens without eroding their rights. But government has no remedy once citizens voluntarily begin to abandon freedom of expression out of fear, guilt — or misguided ideologies designed to deny the singularity of their civilization."
Victor Davis Hanson, "Alexander the Killer", Military History Quarterly 10.3 (Spring 1998): 8-19.
VDH surveys the latest Alexander books: "Alexander the Greatest"
VDH reviews the Alexander movie:
SHORT MOVIE REVIEW: "Alexander the Great is third-rate Cecil B. Demille in drag."
LONG MOVIE REVIEW: "Oliver Stone perpetuates a classical myth"
The Beowulf movie: the latest installment in Hollywood’s attempt to reconfigure history
Hanson, Victor Davis, “Collapse of a ‘Hyperpower’”, The New Criterion 24 (April 2006): 63 ff. <http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson040906.html>
Hanson, Victor Davis, “Decline and Fall”, National Review (March 28, 2005). <http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson042305.html>
A War Like No Other (2005). The famous $500,000
book on The Peloponnesian War.
Between War and Peace (2004). Another terrific collection of topical VDH
essays.
Ripples of Battle (2003). Read this especially for its treatment of Delium.
Mexifornia (2003; revised edition 2007).
An Autumn of War (2002). Includes some of the best writing anywhere about
9/11.
Carnage
and Culture (New York: Doubleday, 2001). Read this especially for its
treatment of Cannae.
Hanson, Victor Davis and Heath, John and Thornton, Bruce S. (edd.), Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age (Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2001).
The Land Was Everything: Letters From an American Farmer (Free Press, 2000).
The
Soul of Battle (1999). Read this especially for its treatment of Epaminondas.
The Wars of the Ancient Greeks (1999). Fantastic one-volume treatment.
Hanson,
Victor Davis and Heath, John Who Killed Homer? : The Demise of Classical
Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom (Free Press: 1998). Hanson
on the new learning
that failed.
Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece (University of California Press: 1998). More insights from Hanson.
Fields Without Dream: Defending the Agrarian Ideal (Free Press: 1997). Hanson the farmer writes with passion.
The
Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization
(Free Press: 1995). Showcases Hanson as a highly original thinker.
Hanson, Victor Davis (ed.) Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle Experience (Routledge Publishing: 1993). Nice collection of scholars' essays.
The
Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece (Alfred
A. Knopf Publishing: 1989). A revolutionary study.
Hanson and the Bush administration
The
ancient world: 'Wars and homos'
Review of Thomas Cahill, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter,
in The Globe and Mail: Books (December 6, 2003), D6.
(mentions the work of Victor Davis
Hanson)
VDH on "bottled piety" and ingratitude
"Philosophy, literature, art, and history—these are not irrelevant when it comes to understanding something as human as war." - VDH
Victor Davis Hanson, "The Humanities Move Off Campus", City Journal 18.4 (Autumn 2008).
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