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Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times - from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes' 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.
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Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals (Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus) who single-handedly saved their nations from defeat in war. War is rarely a predictable enterprise - it is a mess of luck, chance, and incalculable variables. Today's sure winner can easily become tomorrow's doomed loser.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good history book tells about human nature.
- De Doruk Denkel en 03-03-20
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The Allure of Battle
- A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
- De: Cathal J. Nolan
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 25 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive". Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt - all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or may not have determined the final outcome of the wars in which they were fought. Cathal J. Nolan's The Allure of Battle systematically and engrossingly examines the great battles, tracing what he calls "short-war thinking".
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2 out of 5 stars
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Missing important facts and not well researched
- De Andrew en 02-24-18
De: Cathal J. Nolan
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The Great Commanders
- Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Horatio Nelson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ulysses S. Grant, Georgi Zhukov
- De: Phil Grabsky
- Narrado por: Phil Grabsky
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 123
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The Great Commanders is a masterly portrait of six men - Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Horatio Nelson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ulysses S. Grant and Georgi Zhukov - whose military genius changed the course of world history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Broad, and High Level History
- De Mark en 11-20-14
De: Phil Grabsky
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The Second Sino-Japanese War
- A Captivating Guide to Military Conflict That Began Between China and Japan, Including Events Such as the Japanese Invasion of Manchuria and the Nanjing Massacre
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 13
Many people in the West look upon the Second Sino-Japanese War, which took place in the 1930s and 1940s, as a sort of sideshow to the larger Second World War, but there is no separating the two. Imagine the Pacific War, the theater of World War II that took place in the Pacific. If the Japanese were not busy fighting on another front, they would have had millions of more troops available to fight the Americans and the British. In all likelihood, World War II would have ended the same way, but it would have taken much longer and cost that many more lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good summary of Japan leading up to WW2
- De M Maurer en 11-18-21
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Last Stands
- Why Men Fight When All Is Lost
- De: Michael Walsh
- Narrado por: Michael Walsh
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 420
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 359
What is heroism? What are its moral components - altruism, love, self-sacrifice? Why was it once celebrated, and now often dismissed as anachronistic? In this dramatic and readable account of last stands in history - famous or otherwise - Walsh explores the stakes that led men at very different times and places to face overwhelming odds and certain death for the sake of family, home and country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent historical facts
- De Mark Twain en 02-18-21
De: Michael Walsh
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The Punic Wars
- A Captivating Guide to the First, Second, and Third Punic Wars Between Rome and Carthage, Including the Rise and Fall of Hannibal Barca
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 3 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 21
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The Punic Wars between 264 BCE and 146 BCE were a series of wars fought between the armies of ancient Carthage and Rome. In the years before the battles broke out, Carthage had risen from a small port community to the Mediterranean region's richest and most powerful city. Carthage had a powerful navy, a mercenary army, and ample resources to act as an authority in trade and politics. As such, Carthage prohibited Roman trade in the Western Mediterranean through an agreement with what was then just a small city called Rome. Rome didn’t stay small and insignificant for long.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good job
- De Elvira Castillo en 05-14-20
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The Second World Wars
- How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 23 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,356
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,199
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,197
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, 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The story behind the story of WW 2
- De LARRY DINKIN en 02-07-19
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Marathon
- The Battle That Changed Western Civilization
- De: Richard A. Billows
- Narrado por: Jeremy Gage
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Published to coincide with Marathon's 2500th anniversary, a riveting history of the historic battle. The Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. is not only understood as the most decisive event in the struggle between the Greeks and the Persians, but can also be seen as perhaps the most significant moment in our collective history. 10,000 Athenian citizens faced a Persian military force of more than 25,000.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Effectively evokes the world of ancient greece
- De Aaron en 11-02-10
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Frederick the Great
- A Military History
- De: Dennis Showalter
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Frederick the Great is one of history's most important leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia's place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war that was to endure until 1916. However, much myth surrounds this enigmatic man's personality and his role as politician, warrior, and king.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Thrashed insensibly by over writing
- De Jeff Lacy en 09-27-20
De: Dennis Showalter
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Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931-1941
- War in the Far East Series, Book 1
- De: Peter Harmsen
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Storm Clouds over the Pacific begins the story long before Pearl Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and long-standing geopolitics are taken into account. Harmsen demonstrates how Japan and China's ancient enmity led to increased tensions in the 1930s, which, in turn, exploded into conflict in 1937.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Story
- De Coach Mark en 03-25-23
De: Peter Harmsen
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A History of War in 100 Battles
- De: Richard Overy
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 16 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
The object of this audiobook is to introduce listeners to a whole range of military history which has all the drama, dangers, horrors and excitement that we associate with Stalingrad or the Somme. Battles are acute moments of history whenever and wherever they have been fought. Through them we can understand how warfare and world history have evolved. Choosing just 100 battles from recorded human history is a challenge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating perspective o war
- De Roscoe's Masked Avenger en 12-22-16
De: Richard Overy
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Moment of Battle
- The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World
- De: James Lacey, Williamson Murray
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
From the great clashes of antiquity to the high-tech wars of the twenty-first century, here are the stories of the twenty most consequential battles ever fought, including Marathon, where Greece's "greatest generation" repelled Persian forces three times their numbers-and saved Western civilization in its infancy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In Depth
- De L. Sands en 09-26-16
De: James Lacey, y otros
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The End Is Always Near
- Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
- De: Dan Carlin
- Narrado por: Dan Carlin
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,158
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8,949
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,896
In The End Is Always Near, Dan Carlin looks at questions and historical events that force us to consider what sounds like fantasy; that we might suffer the same fate that all previous eras did. Will our world ever become a ruin for future archaeologists to dig up and explore? The questions themselves are both philosophical and like something out of The Twilight Zone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hardcore Histories Greatest Hits
- De Steven Glover en 10-31-19
De: Dan Carlin
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The Fall of Carthage
- The Punic Wars 265-146BC
- De: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,532
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,319
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,313
The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual outcome had far-reaching consequences for the history of the Western World, namely the ascendancy of Rome. An epic of war and battle, this is also the story of famous generals and leaders: Hannibal, Fabius Maximus, Scipio Africanus, and his grandson Scipio Aemilianus, who would finally bring down the walls of Carthage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Captivating
- De Jean en 03-25-19
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Afghanistan
- A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban
- De: Stephen Tanner
- Narrado por: Raymond Todd
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 197
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 88
For more than 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads not only for armies but also for clashes between civilizations. As a result of the United States' engaging in armed conflict with the Afghan regime, an understanding of the military history of that blood-soaked land has become essential to every American.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Overview
- De Colin en 10-16-08
De: Stephen Tanner
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The Savior Generals
- How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 319
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 285
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 284
Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals (Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus) who single-handedly saved their nations from defeat in war. War is rarely a predictable enterprise - it is a mess of luck, chance, and incalculable variables. Today's sure winner can easily become tomorrow's doomed loser.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good history book tells about human nature.
- De Doruk Denkel en 03-03-20
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A War Like No Other
- How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 504
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 417
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 414
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 non-conventional 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"A War Like No Other" is a Book Like No Other
- De MajorChris en 02-06-20
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The Second World Wars
- How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 23 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,356
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,199
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,197
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, 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The story behind the story of WW 2
- De LARRY DINKIN en 02-07-19
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The Dying Citizen
- How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: James Edward Thomas
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,124
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 981
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 972
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 soon vanish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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From an uneducated reader;
- De wbc en 10-12-21
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Who Killed Homer?
- The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
- De: Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 181
For over two millennia in the West, familiarity with the literature, philosophy, and values of the Classical World has been synonymous with education itself. The traditions of the Greeks explain why Western Culture’s unique tenets of democracy, capitalism, civil liberty, and constitutional government are now sweeping the globe. Yet the general public in America knows less about its cultural origins than ever before, as Classical education rapidly disappears from our high school and university curricula.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Required reading
- De Sotiris en 07-28-15
De: Victor Davis Hanson, y otros
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization—sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling the end of political systems, cultures, and epochs. Though much has changed over the millennia, human nature remains the same. In The End of Everything, military historian Victor Davis Hanson narrates a series of sieges and sackings that span the age of antiquity to the conquest of the New World to show how societies descend into barbarism and obliteration.
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The Savior Generals
- How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 319
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 285
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 284
Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals (Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus) who single-handedly saved their nations from defeat in war. War is rarely a predictable enterprise - it is a mess of luck, chance, and incalculable variables. Today's sure winner can easily become tomorrow's doomed loser.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good history book tells about human nature.
- De Doruk Denkel en 03-03-20
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A War Like No Other
- How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 504
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 417
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 414
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 non-conventional 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"A War Like No Other" is a Book Like No Other
- De MajorChris en 02-06-20
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The Second World Wars
- How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 23 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,356
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,199
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,197
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, 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The story behind the story of WW 2
- De LARRY DINKIN en 02-07-19
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The Dying Citizen
- How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: James Edward Thomas
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,124
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 981
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 972
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 soon vanish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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From an uneducated reader;
- De wbc en 10-12-21
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Who Killed Homer?
- The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
- De: Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 181
For over two millennia in the West, familiarity with the literature, philosophy, and values of the Classical World has been synonymous with education itself. The traditions of the Greeks explain why Western Culture’s unique tenets of democracy, capitalism, civil liberty, and constitutional government are now sweeping the globe. Yet the general public in America knows less about its cultural origins than ever before, as Classical education rapidly disappears from our high school and university curricula.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Required reading
- De Sotiris en 07-28-15
De: Victor Davis Hanson, y otros
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization—sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling the end of political systems, cultures, and epochs. Though much has changed over the millennia, human nature remains the same. In The End of Everything, military historian Victor Davis Hanson narrates a series of sieges and sackings that span the age of antiquity to the conquest of the New World to show how societies descend into barbarism and obliteration.
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The Case for Trump
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: David Lertham
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,795
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,595
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,587
In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over 16 well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat with a quarter-billion-dollar war chest, and a hostile media and Washington establishment to become president of the US - and an extremely successful president.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating!!
- De Wayne en 03-07-19
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Sword and Scimitar
- Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
- De: Raymond Ibrahim, Victor Davis Hanson - foreword
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 389
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 386
The West and Islam - the sword and scimitar - have clashed since the 17th century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Roman emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's order to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam, unleashing a centuries-long jihad on Christendom. Sword and Scimitar chronicles the decisive battles that arose from this ages-old Islamic jihad, beginning with the first major Islamic attack on Christian land in 636.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent read
- De Susan Stone en 01-25-19
De: Raymond Ibrahim, y otros
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Liberalism
- In the Classical Tradition
- De: Ludwig von Mises
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 452
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 390
In 1927, classical liberalism, based on a belief in individualism, reason, capitalism, and free trade, was dying, when one of the 20th century's greatest social thinkers wrote this combative and convincing restatement. Nowhere are the key principles of Mises' philosophy better represented than in this timeless work. Mises was a careful and logical theoretician who believed that ideas rule the world, and this especially comes to light in Liberalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent! Need I say more?
- De Luigi Grimaldi en 03-05-16
De: Ludwig von Mises
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The Face of Battle
- De: John Keegan
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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In this major and wholly original contribution to military history, John Keegan reverses the usual convention of writing about war in terms of generals and nations in conflict, which tends to leave the common soldier as cipher. Instead, he focuses on what a set battle is like for the man in the thick of it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing! But probably better in print.
- De D. Martin en 04-20-13
De: John Keegan
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Adam Bede
- De: George Eliot
- Narrado por: Jill Tanner
- Duración: 23 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the 18th century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in "the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis". But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very good book
- De Terri Tinkham en 03-11-19
De: George Eliot
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Defenders of the West
- The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam
- De: Raymond Ibrahim
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 188
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 170
In Defenders of the West, the author of Sword and Scimitar follows up with vivid and dramatic profiles of eight extraordinary warriors—some saints, some sinners—who defended the Christian West against Islamic invasions. Discover the real Count Dracula, Spain’s El Cid, England’s Richard Lionheart, and many other historical figures whose true and original claim to fame revolved around their defiant stance against jihadist aggression.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible Work
- De JW en 08-23-22
De: Raymond Ibrahim
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Crucible of Command
- Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee - the War They Fought, the Peace They Forged
- De: William C. Davis
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 21 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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They met in person only four times, yet these two men determined the outcome of the Civil War and cast competing styles for the reunited nation. Each the subject of innumerable biographies, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee have never before been paired as they are here. Exploring their personalities, their character, and their ethical, moral, political, and military worlds, William C. Davis finds surprising similarities between the two men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Plutarch looks at Grant and Lee ...
- De Orson en 02-24-15
De: William C. Davis
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Last Stands
- Why Men Fight When All Is Lost
- De: Michael Walsh
- Narrado por: Michael Walsh
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 420
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What is heroism? What are its moral components - altruism, love, self-sacrifice? Why was it once celebrated, and now often dismissed as anachronistic? In this dramatic and readable account of last stands in history - famous or otherwise - Walsh explores the stakes that led men at very different times and places to face overwhelming odds and certain death for the sake of family, home and country.
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Excellent historical facts
- De Mark Twain en 02-18-21
De: Michael Walsh
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The Fall of the FBI
- How a Once Great Agency Became a Threat to Democracy
- De: Thomas J. Baker
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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Americans have lost faith in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an institution they once regarded as the world’s greatest law-enforcement agency. Thomas Baker spent many years with the FBI and is deeply troubled by this loss of faith. Specific lapses have come to light and each is thoroughly discussed in this book: Why did they happen? What changed? The answer begins days after the 9/11 attacks when the FBI underwent a significant change in culture.
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This was superb! A real insiders look at what has gone wrong in the FBI.
- De Amazon Customer en 12-27-22
De: Thomas J. Baker
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Rigged
- How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections
- De: Mollie Hemingway
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Railing
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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It was a devastating triple punch. Capping their four-year campaign to destroy the Trump presidency, the media portrayed a Democratic victory as necessary and inevitable. Big Tech, wielding unprecedented powers, vaporized dissent and erased damning reports about the Biden family’s corruption. Rigged is the definitive account of the 2020 election. Based on Mollie Hemingway’s exclusive interviews with campaign officials, reporters, Supreme Court justices, and President Trump himself, it exposes the fraud and cynicism behind the Democrats’ historic power grab.
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The reader is harsh, grating & hardly listenable.
- De sesom en 10-13-21
De: Mollie Hemingway
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Maverick
- A Biography of Thomas Sowell
- De: Jason L. Riley
- Narrado por: Brad Sanders
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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In the first-ever biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative social theorists, Jason L. Riley gives this iconic thinker his due and responds to the detractors. Maverick showcases Sowell's most significant writings and traces the life events that shaped his ideas and resulted in a Black orphan from the Jim Crow South becoming one of our foremost public intellectuals.
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A Biography of Thomas Sowell
- De Wayne en 06-08-21
De: Jason L. Riley
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The Big Stick
- The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
- De: Eliot A. Cohen
- Narrado por: Bill Thatcher
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick", Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901 when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry. But today many Americans doubt the utility of their global military presence, thinking it outdated, unnecessary, or even dangerous. In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen - a scholar and practitioner of international relations - disagrees.
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Turn off the news, listen to this
- De Michael en 02-02-17
De: Eliot A. Cohen
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Carnage and Culture
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- Phyllis
- 05-17-21
I dare to say this is one of VDH's best!
History. If you enjoy history, especially about the Rise of Western Power and Dominance, Victor Davis Hanson never disappoints. The narrator is also very good. Highly recommended.
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- M.W.C.
- 11-22-22
Fantastic book!
Extremely interesting, as all if VDH's work is. Provides an understanding of why Western culture, originating with the Greeks and Romans, has had the success that it has.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-13-21
The WAY we are Because ....
World History from a Vantage Point.
EXCELLENT. SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR EVERY COLLEGE GRADUATE.
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- Joseph P. Silvestri
- 01-10-24
great history!
will re-listen to on audible. excellent historical research deep dives into major battles and struggles
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- Anonymous User
- 06-04-21
Read this book!
More proof that The West is The Best! Great analysis and history! You won't be disappointed!
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- Troy
- 01-03-23
Fact filled description of evolution of western warfare.
An excellent treatise that connects the western world in a way that makes clear the path to western current style of warfare and the basic tenants and values that make it possible.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-27-22
Great Compendium of Battles
I love VDH’s thought processes and insights. He brings together complexities into easy to understand and very relevant modern conclusions. It’s clear, given history back to the 400s BC, that America and the West need to fight for the First & Second Amendments (among others), free market capitalism, and the Constitution in order to benefit the world. Non-Westerners haven’t had these things and the people suffered because of it.
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- Ciegetanks
- 09-30-20
Read this book
If you have any interest in military history at all you must read this book.
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- abnheel
- 10-23-23
Victor Davis Hanson is a treasure
One of the best writers and thinkers alive. Comprehensive look at select warfare and how democracies and free societies succeed and why. Highly recommended.
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- GEJ
- 11-12-19
Wow! This truly is a great book. A rarity!
Superbly researched and factually detailed with brilliant analyses of landmark battles. In a word: Brilliant!
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