Victor Davis Hanson Books In Order
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The End of Sparta | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Western Way of War | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Hoplites | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Other Greeks | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Fields Without Dreams | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Who Killed Homer | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Warfare & Agriculture in Classical Greece | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Soul of Battle | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Land Was Everything | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Carnage and Culture | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Bonfire of the Humanities | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Craft of Northern California | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Mexifornia | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Ripples of Battle | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Between War and Peace | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A War Like No Other | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
An Autumn of War | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
War, Ancient and Modern | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
How the Obama Administration Threatens Our National Security | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Makers of Ancient Strategy | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Father of Us All | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Obama: The Dream and the Reality | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Savior Generals | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Case for Trump | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
What I Believe | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Dying Citizen | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The End of Everything | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of General Military Books
The British Home Guard Pocketbook | (0) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off The Coast of Devon in 1944 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Jackspeak: A Guide to British Naval Slang & Usage | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Out of Nowhere: A history of the military sniper, from the Sharpshooter to Afghanistan | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Rome at War | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Rolling Thunder In A Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
FUBAR: Soldier Slang of World War II | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
An Officer's Manual of the Western Front: 1914-1918 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Warship 2008 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Deceiving Hitler: Double-Cross and Deception in World War II | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II (General Mi | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Battleground Prussia | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Road to Victory: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Spitfire Pocket Manual: 1939-1945 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Warship 2011 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quick Training for War | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Panther: Germany's quest for combat dominance | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Para Fitness Guide | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Rice Paddy Navy:U.S. Sailors Undercover in China | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Commando Pocket Manual: 1940-1945 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
America's Elite: U.S. Special Forces From The American Revolution To The Present Day | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
American Tanks & AFVs of World War II | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Invasion 1914: The Schlieffen Plan to the Battle of the Marne | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
No Victory in Valhalla: The untold story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Bastogne to Berchtesgaden | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The SAS Pocket Manual: 1941-1945 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Company of Heroes: A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company’s War in Vietnam | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume I: 1939–42 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Finland at War: the Winter War 1939-40 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
American Knights: The Untold Story of the Men of the Legendary 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Liberty or Death: The French Revolution | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Samurai Armour: Volume I: The Japanese Cuirass | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Maps of War: Mapping conflict through the centuries | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Instrument of War: The German Army 1914–18 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
With Their Bare Hands: General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Loco Spotter’s Guide | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Long Range Desert Group in World War II | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Sevastopol’s Wars: Crimea from Potemkin to Putin | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Bloodstained Sands: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Soviet T-10 Heavy Tank and Variants | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Shadow over the Atlantic: The Luftwaffe and the U-boats: 1943–45 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Shot Down and in the Drink: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews Saved from the Sea in WWII | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Splintered Empires | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Panther | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Second World Wars | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Concorde Pocket Manual | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Case Red: The Collapse of France | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Legion versus Phalanx | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Mosquito Pocket Manual: All Marks in Service 1941–1945 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Naval Campaign of World War II | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Cutty Sark Pocket Manual | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Snapdragon: The World War II Exploits of Darby's Ranger and Combat Photographer Phil Stern | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
HMS Belfast Pocket Manual | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The German Soldier's Pocket Manual: 1914–18 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Valley Of The Shadow: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Forts: An illustrated history of building for defence | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German codebreaking 1939–45 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Charlie Company Journeys Home: The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Run to the Sound of the Guns: The True Story of an American Ranger at War in Afghanistan and Iraq | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Soviet T-54 Main Battle Tank | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Hitler's Death | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Great Bear at War: The Russian and Soviet Army, 1917–Present | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Pirate World: A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
How to Survive in the Georgian Navy: A Sailor's Guide | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
An Englishman Abroad: SOE Agent Dick Mallaby’s Italian Missions, 1943–45 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
War Bows: Longbow, crossbow, composite bow and Japanese yumi | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Pilgrim Days: A Lifetime of Soldiering from Vietnam to the SAS | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Panzerartillerie: Firepower for the Panzer Divisions | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Holding the Line: The Naval Air Campaign In Korea | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
World War II Battle by Battle | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Doctor for Friend and Foe: Britain's Frontline Medic in the Fight for the Falklands | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Warship 2019 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Scapa 1919: The Archaeology of a Scuttled Fleet | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
German submarine U-1105 'Black Panther': The naval archaeology of a U-boat | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Soviet T-55 Main Battle Tank | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Hurricane Pocket Manual: All marks in service 1939–45 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
On a Knife's Edge | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Sent by the Iron Sky: The Legacy of an American Parachute Battalion in World War II | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Persian War: In Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Audacious Missions of World War II: Daring Acts of Bravery Revealed Through Letters and Documents from the Time | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Be PARA Fit: The 4-Week Formula for Elite Physical Fitness | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Hitler's Tanks: German Panzers of World War II | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Master Shipwright's Secrets: How Charles II built the Restoration Navy | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert 1916–18 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Devil's Bridge: The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Rome - City in Terror: The Nazi Occupation 1943–44 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Reckoning | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy's Revenge | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Blood, Metal and Dust: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001–14 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Churchill Quiz Book: How much do you know about Britain's wartime leader? | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Warship 2021 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Soviet T-62 Main Battle Tank | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Jutland 1916: The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Smithsonian History of Warfare Books
War in the Air 1914-45 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Warfare in the Eighteenth Century | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Second World War in Europe | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Second World War in the East | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Art Of War: War And Military Thought | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
War at Sea in the Age of Sail | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
War at Sea in the Ironclad Age | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
History of Warfare: The Renaissance at War | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Wars of National Liberation | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Wars Of The Ancient Greeks | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Roman Warfare | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Victor Davis Hanson is an Illie and Martin Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he is a Senior Fellow Resident studying Military History and the Classics. He is a Distinguished Fellow at Hillsdale College, a Tribune Media Services nationally syndicated columnist and a professor Emeritus at California State University.
Over the years, he has won numerous fellowships, honors and awards including the Bradley Prize in 2008 and the National Humanities Medal in 2007. Victor has also authored hundreds of scholarly papers, book reviews, articles and newspaper editorials.
He has written on all manner of issues ranging from contemporary culture, ancient Greek, domestic politics, foreign affairs, military and agrarian history. Over the years, he has been the author or editor of more than 17 titles and has also written columns for “The New York Post,” and the “New York Time” among others.
In 1975, Hanson graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a bachelor’s degree. He would then get his doctorate degree in Classics from Stanford University five years later.
Hanson has become one of the United States’ most prolific historians. He was born in Selma California on a farm, the child of one of the first female judges in California and a school administrator.
He had strict parents who ensured that he and his siblings applied themselves. They would often ask what someone was doing whenever they saw Hanson or his brothers just sitting around. His work is united by teaching, scholarship, farming and journalism and the many experiences he had growing up on a farm.
He does see his career as one extended life experience. Having grown up on a farm, he had the tragic perspective on life that he got from his parents and grandparents, which he still has to this day. In school, he studied classics for nearly a decade, both in the US and abroad and then went on to teach for more than twenty years.
All this teaching and studying taught him about unchanging human nature and how predictable the human ordeal could be. Whether it was reading Thucydides or sophocles, or working on a farm the message would be reiterated albeit in different ways.
In his earlier years, Victor Davis Hanson wanted to become a lawyer before he gravitated to the classics, when he went to the University of California. After getting a fellowship to do his doctorate at Stanford, he spent two years in Athens conducting research.
Once he had his doctorate, he realized that there was not much work a classicist qualified for and hence he went back to work on the farm following the death of his grandfather. Still, his scholarship had given him some valuable insights into how ancient Greek society worked.
During this time, he learned that Emilio Gabba, an Italian classicist, had read his dissertation and wanted to publish it. He was atop his tractor when his wife informed him that some guy was calling about wanting to publish his dissertation.
Since he could not afford the $2000 dollar costs of publishing, Gabba convinced the publisher to waive the fee and soon after “Warfare and Agriculture” his debut was published.
Once he published his first, he just could not stop and he went on to publish on almost anything from immigration, farming, classics and more particularly about war.
“A War Like No Other” by Victor Davis Hanson is a provocative and painstakingly researched work that juxtaposes modern concerns with ancient conflict.
Over the course of a generation, Athens the Hellenic polis had fought a bloody war with Sparta, which ultimately led to the destruction of Athens and the end of the golden age for the city state.
Thucydides penned the classical history of the Peloponnesian War that provides a succinct authoritative and vivid narrative to readers through the ages. On his part, Hanson provides something different.
He writes a chronological account reflecting on the political issues of the time, the misery of battle in the many different theaters of the war, the strategic thinking of the actors, and how these events echo into the modern world.
Hanson shows how Sparta and Athens fight on sea and land in the countryside and in the city and how they deployed conventional and unconventional strategies from terrorism and torture, to targeted assasinations and sieges.
He also analyzes the important roles played by thinkers such as Plato and Sophocles, artists such as Aristophanes and warriors such as Lysander and Pericles.
Victor Davis Hanson’s novel examines nine landmark battles stretching from ancient ones such as the Battle of Salamis to the Tet offensive by Hernan Cortes. Hanson explains what makes for the most effective and lethal fighting forces throughout time.
The author looks beyond popular explanations that have cited superior technology and geography and argues that Western values and culture , the concept of citizenship, the value placed on adaptation and inventiveness and the tradition of dissent is what has always made western armies so effective.
Using a balanced perspective and riveting battle narratives, the novel is a demonstration of how armies are deeply woven into and spawned from the cultures that produce them. Hanson argues that an army that comes from a free culture will often have an edge.
He argues that western strategic culture as evidenced in nine historic battles proves that free soldiers perform better than slaves. He cites the naval victory of the Greeks over Persia at Salamis to demonstrate how effective free soldiers can be versus slave one.
Another important battle to prove his point was the Roman recovery after being thoroughly defeated and humiliated by Cannae, which explains the resilience of citizen soldiers over mercenaries.
“The Case for Trump” by Victor Davis Hanson is an exploration of how a renegade businessman rose to become one of the most necessary and successful presidents of all time.
In this work, Hanson explains how Trump with no military or political experience beat more sixteen seasoned Republican rivals, a hostile media establishment, and a Democratic party candidate with a war chest totalling more than a quarter billion, to become one of the most successful presidents in American history.
Trump was the only man who was canny enough to see that the working people of America’s interior needed a voice from the coastal elite from both parties that scorned them.
Only Trump has the energy and instincts to pursue the opportunity to dismantle a corrupt order and win, which enabled him to enact wide ranging policy changes in the US and abroad.
While it is doubtful that the US could survive a succession of volatile presidents such as Trump, after decades of drift he was just the kind of president America needed.
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One of the most brilliant, learned men in the U.S. today. If only the public would listen to him.