On the Eve of the Anniversary of Pearl Harbor in the United States of America, I interviewed the historian Victor Davis Hanson. In this brief interview, we discuss some myths and misconceptions about World War II, largely revolving around the fact that the Axis powers were likely to lose the war from the start. The interview centers on Prof. Hanson's wonderful book, The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won.

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; his focus is classics and military history. Hanson received a BA in classics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1975), was a fellow at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens (1977–78), and received his PhD in classics from Stanford University (1980).

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