Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is an Illie and Martin Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he is a Senior Fellow Resident studying Military History and the Classics. He is a Distinguished Fellow at Hillsdale College, a Tribune Media Services nationally syndicated columnist and a professor Emeritus at California State University. Over the years, he has won numerous fellowships, honors and awards including the Bradley Prize in 2008 and the National Humanities Medal in 2007.

The best place to start is the General Military series, the earliest of Victor Davis Hanson's multi-book series: it opens with Otto Skorzeny (1950) and runs to 112 books across 1950–2021, ending with Jutland 1916 (2021). Victor Davis Hanson's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Victor Davis Hanson has 223 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1950 and 2026. 191 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the General Military series with 112 books — and 32 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Victor Davis Hanson's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are General Military (1950–2021, 112 books), Smithsonian History of Warfare (1999–2005, 12 books) and Encounter Broadsides (2002–2023, 67 books).

This guide splits Victor Davis Hanson's 223 books into 3 named series and 32 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: General Military (112 books, 1950–2021); Encounter Broadsides (67 books, 2002–2023); Smithsonian History of Warfare (12 books, 1999–2005).