A War Like No Other

Download A War Like No Other full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online A War Like No Other ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

A War Like No Other

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588364909
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A War Like No Other by : Victor Davis Hanson

Download or read book A War Like No Other written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other. Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states of Athens and Sparta fought a bloody conflict that resulted in the collapse of Athens and the end of its golden age. Thucydides wrote the standard history of the Peloponnesian War, which has given readers throughout the ages a vivid and authoritative narrative. But Hanson offers readers something new: a complete chronological account that reflects the political background of the time, the strategic thinking of the combatants, the misery of battle in multifaceted theaters, and important insight into how these events echo in the present. Hanson compellingly portrays the ways Athens and Sparta fought on land and sea, in city and countryside, and details their employment of the full scope of conventional and nonconventional tactics, from sieges to targeted assassinations, torture, and terrorism. He also assesses the crucial roles played by warriors such as Pericles and Lysander, artists, among them Aristophanes, and thinkers including Sophocles and Plato. Hanson’s perceptive analysis of events and personalities raises many thought-provoking questions: Were Athens and Sparta like America and Russia, two superpowers battling to the death? Is the Peloponnesian War echoed in the endless, frustrating conflicts of Vietnam, Northern Ireland, and the current Middle East? Or was it more like America’s own Civil War, a brutal rift that rent the fabric of a glorious society, or even this century’s “red state—blue state” schism between liberals and conservatives, a cultural war that manifestly controls military policies? Hanson daringly brings the facts to life and unearths the often surprising ways in which the past informs the present. Brilliantly researched, dynamically written, A War Like No Other is like no other history of this important war.

Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War

Author : George Cawkwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134708432
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War by : George Cawkwell

Download or read book Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War written by George Cawkwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the history of Athens in the all important years of the second half of the fifth century B.C. is largely dependent on the work of the historian Thucydides. Previous scholarship has tended to view Thucydides' account as infallible. This book challenges that received wisdom, advancing original and controversial views of Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War; his misrepresentation of Alcibiades and Demosthenes; his relationship with Pericles; and his views on the Athenian Empire. Cawkwell's comprehensive analysis of Thucydides and his historical writings is persuasive, erudite and an immensely valuable addition to the scholarship and criticism of a rich and popular period of Greek history.

Greek Warriors

Author : Carolyn Willekes
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1508186332
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Greek Warriors by : Carolyn Willekes

Download or read book Greek Warriors written by Carolyn Willekes and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Achilles and the other heroes who fought in the Trojan War are, as far as we know, fictional, the warriors of Ancient Greece are nearly as fascinating. The volume traces the evolution of the ancient Greek warrior, from the Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War, to the rise of Macedonia under Philip II and Alexander the Great. Attention is paid to infantry, including the famous hoplites, cavalry, and naval forces. Sidebars highlight key concepts and figures, while photographs of ancient sculpture, vase paintings, and artifacts offer a glimpse into this distant world.

The Father of Us All

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608192946
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Father of Us All by : Victor Davis Hanson

Download or read book The Father of Us All written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Davis Hanson has long been acclaimed as one of our leading scholars of ancient history. In recent years he has also become a trenchant voice on current affairs, bringing a historian's deep knowledge of past conflicts to bear on the crises of the present, from 9/11 to Iran. "War," he writes, "is an entirely human enterprise." Ideologies change, technologies develop, new strategies are invented-but human nature is constant across time and space. The dynamics of warfare in the present age still remain comprehensible to us through careful study of the past. Though many have called the War on Terror unprecedented, its contours would have been quite familiar to Themistocles of Athens or William Tecumseh Sherman. And as we face the menace of a bin Laden or a Kim Jong-Il, we can prepare ourselves with knowledge of how such challenges have been met before. The Father of Us All brings together much of Hanson's finest writing on war and society, both ancient and modern. The author has gathered a range of essays, and combined and revised them into a richly textured new work that explores such topics as how technology shapes warfare, what constitutes the "American way of war," and why even those who abhor war need to study military history. "War is the father and king of us all," Heraclitus wrote in ancient Greece. And as Victor Davis Hanson shows, it is no less so today.

The Western Way of War

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307831558
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Western Way of War by : Victor Davis Hanson

Download or read book The Western Way of War written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 fifth century b.c. devised a ferocious, brief, and destructive head-on clash between armed men of all ages. In this bold, original study, Victor Davis Hanson shows how this brutal enterprise was dedicated to the same outcome as consensual government--an unequivocal, instant resolution to dispute. The Western Way of War draws from an extraordinary range of sources--Greek poetry, drama, and vase painting, as well as historical records--to describe what actually took place on the battlefield. It is the first study to explore the actual mechanics of classical Greek battle from the vantage point of the infantryman--the brutal spear-thrusting, the difficulty of fighting in heavy bronze armor which made it hard to see, hear and move, and the fear. Hanson also discusses the physical condition and age of the men, weaponry, wounds, and morale. This compelling account of what happened on the killing fields of the ancient Greeks ultimately shows that their style of armament and battle was contrived to minimize time and life lost by making the battle experience as decisive and appalling as possible. Linking this new style of fighting to the rise of constitutional government, Hanson raises new issues and questions old assumptions about the history of war.

An Autumn of War

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400031133
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis An Autumn of War by : Victor Davis Hanson

Download or read book An Autumn of War written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 11, 2001, hours after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the eminent military historian Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article in which he asserted that the United States, like it or not, was now at war and had the moral right to respond with force. An Autumn of War, which opens with that first essay, will stimulate readers across the political spectrum to think more deeply about the attacks, the war, and their lessons for all of us.

Between War and Peace

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307430693
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Between War and Peace by : Victor Davis Hanson

Download or read book Between War and Peace written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In direct language, Hanson portrays an America making progress against Islamic fundamentalism but hampered by the self-hatred of elite academics at home and the cynical self-interest of allies abroad. He sees a new and urgent struggle of evil against good, one that can fail only if “we convince ourselves that our enemies fight because of something we, rather than they, did.” Whether it’s a clear-cut defense of Israel as a secular democracy, a denunciation of how the U.N. undermines the U.S., a plea to drastically alter our alliance with Saudi Arabia, or a perception that postwar Iraq is reaching a dangerous tipping point, Hanson’s arguments have the shock of candor and the fire of conviction.

Why the West Has Won

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571216406
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (164 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Why the West Has Won by : Victor Davis Hanson

Download or read book Why the West Has Won written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2002 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Why The West Has Won' provides a history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success.

The Savior Generals

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 160819163X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Savior Generals by : Victor Davis Hanson

Download or read book The Savior Generals written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving portraits of five commanders whose dynamic leadership styles changed the course of warfare and history trace the stories of Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway and David Petraeus, evaluating their pivotal military roles and the controversies that marked their careers.

Mexifornia

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mexifornia by : Victor Davis Hanson

Download or read book Mexifornia written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

On War

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis On War by : Carl von Clausewitz

Download or read book On War written by Carl von Clausewitz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Carnage and Culture

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307425185
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Carnage and Culture by : Victor Davis Hanson

Download or read book Carnage and Culture written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture and values–the tradition of dissent, the value placed on inventiveness and adaptation, the concept of citizenship–which have consistently produced superior arms and soldiers. Offering riveting battle narratives and a balanced perspective that avoids simple triumphalism, Carnage and Culture demonstrates how armies cannot be separated from the cultures that produce them and explains why an army produced by a free culture will always have the advantage.

The Second World Wars

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465093191
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Second World Wars by : Victor Davis Hanson

Download or read book The Second World Wars written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian. World 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 disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war. Drawing on 3,000 years of military history, bestselling author Victor Davis Hanson argues that despite its novel industrial barbarity, neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual. Nor was its ultimate outcome surprising. The Axis powers were well prepared to win limited border conflicts, but once they blundered into global war, they had no hope of victory. An authoritative new history of astonishing breadth, The Second World Wars offers a stunning reinterpretation of history's deadliest conflict.

A Boy at War

Author : Harry Mazer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442472111
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Boy at War by : Harry Mazer

Download or read book A Boy at War written by Harry Mazer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They rowed hard, away from the battleships and the bombs. Water sprayed over them. The rowboat pitched one way and then the other. Then, before his eyes, the Arizona lifted up out of the water. That enormous battleship bounced up in the air like a rubber ball and split apart. Fire burst out of the ship. A geyser of water shot into the air and came crashing down. Adam was almost thrown out of the rowboat. He clung to the seat as it swung around. He saw blue skies and the glittering city. The boat swung back again, and he saw black clouds, and the Arizona, his father's ship, sinking beneath the water. -- from A Boy at War "He kept looking up, afraid the planes would come back. The sky was obscured by black smoke....It was all unreal: the battleships half sunk, the bullet holes in the boat, Davi and Martin in the water." December 7, 1941: On a quiet Sunday morning, while Adam and his friends are fishing near Honolulu, a surprise attack by Japanese bombers destroys the fleet at Pearl Harbor. Even as Adam struggles to survive the sudden chaos all around him, and as his friends endure the brunt of the attack, a greater concern hangs over his head: Adam's father, a navy lieutenant, was stationed on the USS Arizona when the bombs fell. During the subsequent days Adam -- not yet a man, but no longer a boy -- is caught up in the war as he desperately tries to make sense of what happened to his friends and to find news of his father. Harry Mazer, whose autobiographical novel, The Last Mission, brought the European side of World War II to vivid life, now turns to the Pacific theater and how the impact of war can alter young lives forever.

The End of Sparta

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608191648
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The End of Sparta by : Victor Davis Hanson

Download or read book The End of Sparta written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale inspired by the battles of ancient Greek military leader Epaminondas is told through the eyes of a farmer who leaves his home to serve under the general and who is swept up against his better judgment in the fervor to bring democracy to regions oppressed by the Spartans. A first novel by the historian author of The Father of Us All. 40,000 first printing.

A Great Place to Have a War

Author : Joshua Kurlantzick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451667892
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Great Place to Have a War by : Joshua Kurlantzick

Download or read book A Great Place to Have a War written by Joshua Kurlantzick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of how America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy. January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americans have heard of, is at risk of falling to communism and triggering a domino effect throughout Southeast Asia. This is what President Eisenhower believed when he approved the CIA’s Operation Momentum, creating an army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces there. Largely hidden from the American public—and most of Congress—Momentum became the largest CIA paramilitary operation in the history of the United States. The brutal war lasted more than a decade, left the ground littered with thousands of unexploded bombs, and changed the nature of the CIA forever. With “revelatory reporting” and “lucid prose” (The Economist), Kurlantzick provides the definitive account of the Laos war, focusing on the four key people who led the operation: the CIA operative whose idea it was, the Hmong general who led the proxy army in the field, the paramilitary specialist who trained the Hmong forces, and the State Department careerist who took control over the war as it grew. Using recently declassified records and extensive interviews, Kurlantzick shows for the first time how the CIA’s clandestine adventures in one small, Southeast Asian country became the template for how the United States has conducted war ever since—all the way to today’s war on terrorism.

The Unwomanly Face of War

Author : Светлана Алексиевич
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0399588728
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Unwomanly Face of War by : Светлана Алексиевич

Download or read book The Unwomanly Face of War written by Светлана Алексиевич and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in Russian as U voiny--ne zhenskoe lietiso by Mastatskaya Litaratura, Minsk, in 1985. Originally published in English as War's unwomanly face by Progress Publishers, Moscow, in 1988"--Title page verso.