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War and History, Ancient and Modern
Bloomsbury Press
May 2010
On Sale: April 27, 2010
272 pages
ISBN: 1608191656
EAN: 9781608191659
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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.
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