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Explores the experiences, techniques and rituals of soldiers in battle on the plains of ancient Greece using a wide variety of contemporary research and sources.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Trump explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship.Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the "citizen" is historically rare-and was among America's most valued ideals for over two centuries. But without shock treatment, warns historian Victor Davis Hanson, American citizenship as we have known it may so...

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This is a brilliant history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success.

Part history, part political analysis, and part memoir, Mexifornia is an intensely personal work by one of our most important writers. Victor Davis Hanson, known for his military histories and his social commentary, is a fifth-generation Californian who lives on a family farm in the Central Valley and has written eloquent elegies on the decline of agrarianism, Fields Without Dreams and The Land Was Everything. Here too, he ponders what has cha...

An instant New York Times bestseller: From an award-winning historian and regular Fox contributor, the true story of how Donald Trump has become one of the most successful presidents in history -- and why America needs him now more than ever

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Nell'aprile del 404 a.C. l'ammiraglio spartano Lisandro condusse finalmente la sua immensa flotta nell'odiato porto ateniese del Pireo, ponendo fine a quella che è passata alla storia come «guerra del Peloponneso». La città di Atene, un tempo potentissima e ora invasa da profughi, ridotta allo stremo dalla malattia, dalla fame e da ventisette anni di guerra, era alla mercé degli spartani. Una fine assolutamente inconcepibile solo tre decenni p...

La supremazia dell'Occidente è ormai da secoli un fatto indiscutibile. Ma a cosa è dovuta? Nel tempo sono stati evocati diversi fattori: razziali, tecnologici, di organizzazione economica, politica, morale... Hanson mette insieme tutto questo ma offre anche una sua provocatoria spiegazione: gli occidentali hanno vinto perché sono più bravi a uccidere. Focalizzandosi sull'aspetto militare della civiltà occidentale, Hanson vede nella guerra un m...

A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historianWorld War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya.The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparat...

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