Victor Davis Hanson

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1. Victor Davis Hanson

   Author of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism, Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age

2. Harry Turtledove

   Author of Worldwar: In the Balance, How Few Remain, The Great War: American Front

3. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, A History of Warfare, Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris

4. Robert Cowley

   Author of What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, What Ifs? of American History : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, More What If?: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been?

5. Donald Kagan

   Author of The Peloponnesian War, On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace, The Archidamian War (Cornell Paperbacks)

6. Thomas Sowell

   Author of A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy, Knowledge and Decisions

7. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Guns of August, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, The Zimmermann Telegram

8. Adrian Goldsworthy

   Author of The Punic Wars, In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (Phoenix Press), Roman Warfare

9. Niall Ferguson

   Author of The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, The Pity of War, Virtual History

10. Max Boot

    Author of The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today

11. Robert K. Massie

    Author of Peter the Great, Dreadnought, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

12. Barry Strauss

    Author of The Trojan War: A New History, The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization, The Anatomy of Error: Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists

13. Rick Atkinson

    Author of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, The Day of Battle, Crusade; the Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War

14. Stephen E. Ambrose

    Author of Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

15. Paul Cartledge

    Author of The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World

16. Bernard Lewis

    Author of What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice

17. Thucydides

    Author of The History of the Peloponnesian War, The Landmark Thucydides

18. Peter Green

    Author of Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography, Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (Hellenistic Culture and Society), The Greco-Persian Wars

19. Eliot A. Cohen

    Author of Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War, Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime

20. Robert D. Kaplan

    Author of Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos, Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond