Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson est un universitaire, auteur et commentateur hautement respecté et accompli. Il occupe actuellement le poste de senior fellow Illie et Martin Anderson à l'Hoover Institution, où ses recherches et études portent sur l'Histoire militaire et les Classiques. En plus de son rôle à l'Hoover Institution, Hanson est également fellow distingué à la Hillsdale College et chroniqueur nationally syndicated pour Tribune Media Services. Il a également été professeur émérite à l'Université d'État de Californie.

Les qualifications académiques impressionnantes de Hanson incluent un BA en Classiques de l'Université de Californie, Santa Cruz, ainsi qu'un Ph.D. en Classiques de l'Université Stanford. Il a également étudié à l'American School of Classical Studies. L'expertise de Hanson dans les Classiques est démontrée par son rôle de professeur de grec et de directeur du programme de Classiques à l'Université d'État de Californie, Fresno, où il a été nommé le meilleur enseignant de premier cycle en classiques du pays en 1992.

En plus de son travail académique, Hanson est également un auteur et éditeur prolifique, ayant écrit ou édité plusieurs livres sur une large gamme de sujets. Certains de ses travaux les plus notables incluent "Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom" (avec John Heath, Free Press, 1998) et "The Soul of Battle" (Free Press, 1999). Hanson est également connu pour son background agricole, il vit et travaille avec sa famille sur leur ferme de quarante acres d'arbres et de vignes près de Selma, en Californie, où il est né en 1953.

Le travail de Hanson a été largement reconnu et honoré, avec de nombreux prix et éloges à son actif. Il est une voix respectée sur une large gamme de sujets, et son travail a été largement cité et référencé dans les cercles académiques et populaires. Son expertise en Classiques et en Histoire militaire, ainsi que sa capacité à communiquer des idées complexes de manière accessible, en font une ressource précieuse pour tous ceux qui cherchent à comprendre ces sujets en profondeur.
Romans indépendants
# Titre Année
1 The End of Sparta 2011
Livres de non-fiction
# Titre Année
1 The Western Way of War 1989
2 Hoplites 1991
3 The Other Greeks 1995
4 Fields Without Dreams 1996
5 Who Killed Homer 1998
6 Who Killed Homer (With: John Heath) 1998
7 Warfare & Agriculture in Classical Greece 1998
8 The Soul of Battle 1999
9 The Land Was Everything 2000
10 Carnage and Culture 2001
11 Bonfire of the Humanities (With: John Heath, Bruce S. Thornton) 2001
12 Bonfire of the Humanities 2001
13 Craft of Northern California 2003
14 The Wars of the Ancient Greeks 2002
15 Mexifornia 2003
16 Ripples of Battle 2003
17 Between War and Peace 2004
18 A War Like No Other 2005
19 An Autumn of War 2007
20 War, Ancient and Modern 2008
21 Makers of Ancient Strategy 2010
22 How the Obama Administration Threatens Our National Security 2009
23 The Father of Us All 2010
24 Obama: The Dream and the Reality 2012
25 The Savior Generals 2013
26 The Case for Trump 2019
27 What I Believe (By: Rebekah Mercer) 2019
28 The Second World Wars 2017
29 The Dying Citizen 2021
30 The End of Everything 2024
Encounter Broadsides Books
# Titre Année
1 Life Liberty & the Defense of Dignity (By: Leon R. Kass) 2002
2 Why Obama's Government Takeover of Health Care Will Be a Disaster (By: David Gratzer) 2009
3 How the Obama Administration has Politicized Justice (By: Andrew C. McCarthy) 2009
4 How the Obama Administration Threatens to Undermine Our Elections (By: John Fund) 2009
5 How the Obama Administration Threatens Our National Security 2009
6 How Barack Obama is Bankrupting the U.S. Economy (By: Stephen Moore) 2009
7 The Bad Science and Bad Policy of Obama?s Global Warming Agenda (By: Roy W. Spencer) 2010
8 Obama's Betrayal of Israel (By: Michael Ledeen) 2010
9 How Obama Has Mishandled the War on Terror (By: Michael B. Mukasey) 2010
10 How Obama is Transforming America's Military from Superpower to Paper Tiger (By: Jed Babbin) 2010
11 How Obama Embraces Islam's Sharia Agenda (By: Andrew C. McCarthy) 2010
12 Obama's Radical Transformation of America (By: Joshua Muravchik) 2010
13 How Barack Obama Is Endangering Our National Sovereignty (By: John R. Bolton) 2010
14 What President Obama Doesn’t Know About Guantanamo (By: Thomas Joscelyn) 2010
15 Obama Health Law (By: Betsy McCaughey) 2010
16 Obama and America's Public Sector Plague (By: E.J. McMahon) 2010
17 How Obama?s Gender Policies Undermine America (By: Diana Furchtgott-Roth) 2010
18 President Obama's Tax Piracy (By: Peter Ferrara) 2010
19 Why America Must Not Follow Europe (By: Daniel Hannan) 2011
20 Government Unions and the Bankrupting of America (By: Daniel DiSalvo) 2011
21 How the EPA’s Green Tyranny is Stifling America (By: Rich Trzupek) 2011
22 Why America Needs School Choice (By: Jay P. Greene) 2011
23 A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred (By: Sol Stern) 2011
24 Obama and the Crash of 2013 (By: Peter Ferrara) 2011
25 The Fallacy of Net Neutrality (By: Thomas W. Hazlett) 2011
26 Why Progressive Institutions are Unsustainable (By: Richard A. Epstein) 2011
27 Obama's Education Takeover (By: Lance T. Izumi) 2011
28 The Dependency Agenda (By: Kevin D. Williamson) 2012
29 The Higher Education Bubble (By: Glenn Harlan Reynolds) 2012
30 The People v. the Democratic Party (By: Michael Walsh) 2012
31 The K-12 Implosion (By: Glenn Harlan Reynolds) 2013
32 The Cure for Obamacare (By: Sally C. Pipes) 2013
33 The Truth About Gun Control (By: David Kopel) 2013
34 Philanthropy Under Fire (By: Howard Husock) 2013
35 The Truth About the IRS Scandals (By: Charles C. Johnson) 2013
36 How Medicaid Fails the Poor (By: Avik Roy) 2013
37 What Doomed Detroit (By: Kevin D. Williamson) 2013
38 The Inequality Hoax (By: James Piereson) 2014
39 Freedom from Speech (By: Greg Lukianoff) 2014
40 Common Core (By: Peter W. Wood, Sol Stern) 2014
41 Open Immigration (By: Alex Nowrasteh) 2014
42 Islam and Free Speech (By: Andrew C McCarthy) 2015
43 Against the Obamanet (By: Brian C. Anderson) 2015
44 What's So Bad About Cronyism? (By: Jay Cost) 2015
45 Why Redistribution Fails (By: James Piereson) 2015
46 The Case Against Trump (By: Kevin D. Williamson) 2015
47 The Way Out of Obamacare (By: Sally C. Pipes) 2015
48 Moore vs. Krugman (By: Stephen Moore) 2016
49 Twisting Title IX (By: Robert L. Shibley) 2016
50 Trump vs. the Media (By: Mollie Ziegler Hemingway) 2017
51 How Progressive Cities Fight Innovation (By: Jared Meyer) 2017
52 The Fracturing of the E.U. (By: Bruce S. Thornton) 2017
53 The Judiciary's Class War (By: Glenn Harlan Reynolds) 2018
54 The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care (By: Sally C. Pipes) 2018
55 Operation Drain the Swamp (By: Adam Andrzejewski) 2018
56 Trump vs. the Leviathan (By: Chris Buskirk) 2018
57 Losing South Korea (By: Gordon G. Chang) 2019
58 Khashoggi, Dynasties, and Double Standards (By: Joseph P. Duggan) 2019
59 Checking Progressive Privilege (By: Carrie L. Lukas) 2019
60 The Great U.S.-China Tech War (By: Gordon G. Chang) 2020
61 How China's Communist Party Made the World Sick (By: Bill Gertz) 2020
62 Why We Must Defend the Electoral College (By: Trent England) 2020
63 Getting America Back to Work (By: Andrew F. Puzder) 2020
64 The Next Pandemic (By: Betsy McCaughey) 2020
65 Communist China's War Inside America (By: Brian T. Kennedy) 2020
66 It’s Time to Let America Work Again (By: Andrew F. Puzder) 2020
General Military Books
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1 Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple (By: Stuart Smith) 1950
2 The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off The Coast of Devon in 1944 (By: Mark Rogerson, Ken Small) 1988
3 Jackspeak: A Guide to British Naval Slang & Usage (By: Rick Jolly) 1989
4 Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War (By: Thomas A. Desjardin) 1999
5 Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship (By: Angus Konstam) 2003
6 Out of Nowhere: A history of the military sniper, from the Sharpshooter to Afghanistan (By: Martin Pegler) 2004
7 Rome at War (By: Adrian Goldsworthy) 2005
8 Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War (By: Aaron Sheehan-Dean) 2006
9 Rolling Thunder In A Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited (By: Andrew Wiest) 2006
10 FUBAR: Soldier Slang of World War II (By: Gordon L. Rottman) 2007
11 An Officer's Manual of the Western Front: 1914-1918 (By: Stephen Bull) 2008
12 Warship 2008 ( By: John Jordan) 2008
13 Deceiving Hitler: Double-Cross and Deception in World War II (By: Terry Crowdy) 2008
14 Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World (By: Brian Lavery) 2009
15 The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660 (By: Blair Worden) 2009
16 No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II (General Mi (By: Kenneth K. Koskodan) 2009
17 Battleground Prussia (By: Prit Buttar) 2010
18 The Road to Victory: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa (By: Dale A. Dye, Robert J. O'Neill) 2011
19 The Spitfire Pocket Manual: 1939-1945 (By: Martin Robson) 2011
20 Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare (By: Clive Cussler, James P. Delgado) 2011
21 Warship 2011 ( By: John Jordan) 2011
22 Quick Training for War (By: Robert Baden-Powell, Martin Robson) 2011
23 Panther: Germany's quest for combat dominance (By: Michael; Green Gladys Green) 2012
24 The Para Fitness Guide (By: Sam McGrath) 2012
25 The Rice Paddy Navy: U.S. Sailors Undercover in China (By: Linda Kush) 2012
26 The Commando Pocket Manual: 1940-1945 (By: Christopher Westhorp) 2012
27 Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq (By: Lou DiMarco) 2012
28 America's Elite: U.S. Special Forces From The American Revolution To The Present Day (By: Chris McNab) 2014
29 American Tanks & AFVs of World War II (By: Michael Green) 2014
30 Invasion 1914: The Schlieffen Plan to the Battle of the Marne (By: Ian Senior) 2014
31 No Victory in Valhalla: The untold story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Bastogne to Berchtesgaden (By: Ian Gardner) 2014
32 The SAS Pocket Manual: 1941-1945 (By: Christopher Westhorp) 2014
33 Company of Heroes: A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company’s War in Vietnam (By: Eric Poole) 2015
34 Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915 (By: Prit Buttar) 2015
35 The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume I: 1939–42 (By: Thomas Anderson) 2015
36 Finland at War: the Winter War 1939-40 (By: Vesa Nenye) 2015
37 American Knights: The Untold Story of the Men of the Legendary 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion (By: Victor Failmezger) 2015
38 Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45 (By: Chris Birks, Vesa Nenye, Peter Munter, Toni Wirtanen) 2016
39 Liberty or Death: The French Revolution (By: Peter McPhee) 2016
40 Samurai Armour: Volume I: The Japanese Cuirass (By: Trevor Absolon) 2016
41 Maps of War: Mapping conflict through the centuries (By: Jeremy Black) 2016
42 We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41 (By: Robert Forczyk) 2016
43 Instrument of War: The German Army 1914–18 (By: Dennis E. Showalter) 2016
44 With Their Bare Hands: General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon (By: Gene Fax) 2017
45 Loco Spotter’s Guide (By: Stuart Black) 2017
46 The Long Range Desert Group in World War II (By: Gavin Mortimer) 2017
47 Sevastopol’s Wars: Crimea from Potemkin to Putin (By: Mungo Melvin) 2017
48 Bloodstained Sands: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II (By: Michael G. Walling) 2017
49 Soviet T-10 Heavy Tank and Variants (By: Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear) 2017
50 Shadow over the Atlantic: The Luftwaffe and the U-boats: 1943–45 (By: Jim Laurier, Robert Forsyth) 2017
51 Shot Down and in the Drink: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews Saved from the Sea in WWII (By: Graham Pitchfork) 2017
52 The Splintered Empires (By: Prit Buttar) 2017
53 Panther (By: Thomas Anderson) 2017
54 The Second World Wars 2017
55 Concorde Pocket Manual (By: Richard Johnstone-Bryden) 2017
56 Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944 (By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver) 2017
57 Case Red: The Collapse of France (By: Robert Forczyk) 2017
58 Legion versus Phalanx (By: Myke Cole) 2018
59 The Mosquito Pocket Manual: All Marks in Service 1941–1945 (By: Martin Robson) 2018
60 Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Naval Campaign of World War II (By: Jeffrey R. Cox) 2018
61 Cutty Sark Pocket Manual (By: Arron Hewett, Louise MacFarlane) 2018
62 The British Home Guard Pocketbook (By: A.F.U. Green) 2018
63 Snapdragon: The World War II Exploits of Darby's Ranger and Combat Photographer Phil Stern (By: Liesl Bradner, Phil Stern) 2018
64 Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay (By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver) 2018
65 HMS Belfast Pocket Manual (By: John Blake) 2018
66 The German Soldier's Pocket Manual: 1914–18 (By: Stephen Bull) 2018
67 Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage (By: Martin Robson) 2018
68 Valley Of The Shadow: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu (By: Kevin M. Boylan, Luc Olivier) 2018
69 Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On (By: Leigh Neville) 2018
70 Forts: An illustrated history of building for defence (By: Jeremy Black, National Archives) 2018
71 The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German codebreaking 1939–45 (By: Christian Jennings) 2018
72 Charlie Company Journeys Home: The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans (By: Andrew Wiest) 2018
73 Run to the Sound of the Guns: The True Story of an American Ranger at War in Afghanistan and Iraq (By: Nicholas Moore, Mir Bahmanyar) 2018
74 Soviet T-54 Main Battle Tank (By: Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear, Andrey Aksenov) 2018
75 Hitler's Death (By: Luke Daly-Groves) 2019
76 The Great Bear at War: The Russian and Soviet Army, 1917–Present (By: Chris McNab, Mark Galeotti) 2019
77 The Pirate World: A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers (By: Angus Konstam) 2019
78 How to Survive in the Georgian Navy: A Sailor's Guide (By: National Archives) 2019
79 An Englishman Abroad: SOE Agent Dick Mallaby’s Italian Missions, 1943–45 (By: Gianluca Barneschi) 2019
80 War Bows: Longbow, crossbow, composite bow and Japanese yumi (By: Mike Loades) 2019
81 Pilgrim Days: A Lifetime of Soldiering from Vietnam to the SAS (By: Alastair MacKenzie) 2019
82 Panzerartillerie: Firepower for the Panzer Divisions (By: Thomas Anderson) 2019
83 Holding the Line: The Naval Air Campaign In Korea (By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver) 2019
84 World War II Battle by Battle (By: Nikolai Bogdanovic) 2019
85 Doctor for Friend and Foe: Britain's Frontline Medic in the Fight for the Falklands (By: Rick Jolly) 2019
86 Warship 2019 ( By: John Jordan) 2019
87 Scapa 1919: The Archaeology of a Scuttled Fleet (By: Innes McCartney) 2019
88 Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway (By: David Rigby) 2019
89 German submarine U-1105 'Black Panther': The naval archaeology of a U-boat (By: Aaron Stephan Hamilton) 2019
90 Soviet T-55 Main Battle Tank (By: Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear, Andrey Aksenov) 2019
91 The Hurricane Pocket Manual: All marks in service 1939–45 (By: Martin Robson) 2019
92 On a Knife's Edge (By: Prit Buttar) 2019
93 Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 (By: Robert Forczyk) 2019
94 Sent by the Iron Sky: The Legacy of an American Parachute Battalion in World War II (By: Ian Gardner) 2019
95 The Persian War: In Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices (By: William Shepherd) 2019
96 Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943 (By: Jeffrey R. Cox) 2020
97 Audacious Missions of World War II: Daring Acts of Bravery Revealed Through Letters and Documents from the Time (By: National Archives) 2020
98 Be PARA Fit: The 4-Week Formula for Elite Physical Fitness (By: Sam McGrath) 2020
99 Hitler's Tanks: German Panzers of World War II (By: Chris McNab) 2020
100 The Master Shipwright's Secrets: How Charles II built the Restoration Navy (By: Richard Endsor) 2020
101 Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert 1916–18 (By: Rob Johnson) 2020
102 The Devil's Bridge: The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944 (By: Anthony Tucker-Jones) 2020
103 Rome - City in Terror: The Nazi Occupation 1943–44 (By: Victor Failmezger) 2020
104 I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway (By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver) 2020
105 The Reckoning (By: Prit Buttar) 2020
106 Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy's Revenge (By: Angus Konstam) 2020
107 Blood, Metal and Dust: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001–14 (By: Ben Barry) 2020
108 The Churchill Quiz Book: How much do you know about Britain's wartime leader? (By: Kieran Whitworth) 2021
109 Warship 2021 (By: John Jordan) 2021
110 Soviet T-62 Main Battle Tank (By: Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear, Andrey Aksenov) 2021
111 Jutland 1916: The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield (By: Innes McCartney) 2021
Smithsonian History of Warfare Books
# Titre Année
1 War in the Air 1914-45 (By: Williamson Murray) 1999
2 The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century (By: Brian Holden Reid) 1999
3 Warfare in the Eighteenth Century (By: Jeremy Black) 1999
4 The Second World War in Europe (By: Charles Messenger) 1999
5 The Second World War in the East (By: H.P. Willmott) 2000
6 The Art Of War: War And Military Thought (By: Martin van Creveld) 2000
7 War at Sea in the Age of Sail (By: Andrew D. Lambert) 2000
8 War at Sea in the Ironclad Age (By: Richard Hill) 2000
9 History of Warfare: The Renaissance at War (By: John Keegan, Thomas F. Arnold) 2001
10 Wars of National Liberation (By: Daniel Moran) 2001
11 The Wars Of The Ancient Greeks 2002
12 Roman Warfare (By: Adrian Goldsworthy) 2005
Victor Davis Hanson Anthologies
# Titre Année
1 What If?: The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 1999
2 What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 2000
3 No End Save Victory 2001
4 The California Republic: Institutions, Statesmanship, and Policies 2003
5 The Politically Correct University 2009
6 International Religious Freedom: The Rise of Global Intolerance 2019