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The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern
ISBN: 9781608194100 | 1608194108
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date: 4/26/2011
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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 st... MORE
| Preface | p. xi |
| Military History: The Orphaned Discipline | p. 1 |
| Why Study War? | p. 3 |
| Classical Lessons and Post-9/11 Wars | p. 31 |
| Raw, Relevant History: From the 300 Spartans to the History of Thucydides | p. 50 |
| War Writing | p. 61 |
| Thalatta! Thalatta! | p. 63 |
| The Old Breed | p. 71 |
| The War to Begin All Wars | p. 83 |
| Don Juan o... MORE | p. 94 |
| The Postmodern Meets the Premodern | p. 103 |
| The End of Decisive Battle-For Now | p. 105 |
| ôMen Make a City, Not Walls or Ships Empty of Menö | p. 123 |
| The American Way of War-Past, Present, and Future | p. 137 |
| How Western Wars are Lost-and Won | p. 159 |
| Your Defeat, My Victory | p. 161 |
| The Odd Couple-War and Democracy | p. 188 |
| Who is the Enemy? | p. 212 |
| Epilogue | p. 237 |
| Index | p. 247 |
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Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His many bestselling books include Carnage and Culture, A War Like No Other, and An Autumn of War. His Web site is www.victorhanson.com.
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