Dennis Showalter (1942–2019)
Auteur de If the Allies Had Fallen : Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II
A propos de l'auteur
Dennis E. Showalter is a professor emeritus of history at Colorado College. He is a specialist in German military history with a catalogue of books which range from this study of Frederick the Great to the Battle Kursk. He has received numerous awards, including the 1992 Paul M. Birdsall Prize for afficher plus best new book given by the American Historical Association, the 2005 Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement given by the Society for Military History, and the 2018 Pritzker Literature Award. afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Dennis Showalter
The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914: How Faulty Reconnaissance Exposed the Weakness of the Schlieffen Plan (2019) 13 exemplaires
The Cambridge History of War, Volume 4: War and the Modern World (2012) — Directeur de publication — 10 exemplaires
History in Dispute - Volume 4, World War II, 1939-1943 (1999) — Directeur de publication — 6 exemplaires
World War II 1943-1945: World War II, 1942-1945 (History in Dispute) (2000) — Directeur de publication — 6 exemplaires
Cold War: The Cold War, Second Series (History in Dispute) (2000) — Directeur de publication — 5 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (1999) — Contributeur — 1,771 exemplaires
Hitler's Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War In The East (2005) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 42 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1996 (1996) — Author "The First Jet War" — 26 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1994 (1994) — Author "The Birth of Blitzkrieg" and "Hans von Seeckt" — 15 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1998 (1998) — Author "The Armistice of Desperation" — 14 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1999 (1999) — Author "Masterpiece of Maneuver and Resolution" — 13 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2006 (2005) — Author "Edge of the Wedge" — 9 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2000 (1999) — Author "Most Effective Air Commander: George C. Kenney" — 9 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1998 (1997) — Author "Salonika" — 9 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2008 (2007) — Author "European Power Projection" — 8 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 2002 (2002) — Author "The Face of Modern War" — 8 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 2008 (2008) — Author "In Review: God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad" — 8 exemplaires
Warfare And Belligerence: Perspectives In First World War Studies (2005) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 2009 (2009) — Author "In Review: Masters and Commanders" — 7 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2004 (2003) — Author "Gustavus' Greatest Victory" — 7 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 2004 (2004) — Author "In Review: Storm of Steel" — 5 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 2006 (2006) — Author "In Review: Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War" — 3 exemplaires
Desperta Ferro Moderna. La Guerra Franco-Prusiana ( I ): El ocaso de Napoleón III — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 2013 (2013) — Author "The Crucible" [excerpt] — 2 exemplaires
Desperta Ferro Contemporánea 1 - 1914, el estallido de la Gran Guerra — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1942-02-12
- Date de décès
- 2019-12-30
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- University of Minnesota
St. John's University - Professions
- professor
historian - Organisations
- Colorado College
Society for Military History - Prix et distinctions
- Samuel Eliot Morison Prize (2005)
- Courte biographie
- Dennis Showalter is Professor of History at Colorado College. He has been President of the Military History Society and Visiting Professor at the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy and Marine Corps University. His major publications include The Wars of German Unification, Tannenberg: Clash of Empires, The Wars of Frederick the Great, Railroads and Rifles: Soldiers, Technology and The Unification of Germany, and Patton and Rommel: Men Of War in the 20th Century.
http://military.hist.unt.edu/adfel/sh...
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 24
- Aussi par
- 25
- Membres
- 1,403
- Popularité
- #18,302
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 19
- ISBN
- 80
- Langues
- 4
First of all, just like any encyclopedia, this is not designed to be read from cover to cover, at least not as a single work. Like my old Encyclopedia Britannica, one will likely skip around and end up reading most of it. But also like the EB, each entry aims to offer a very basic who, what, why, when, where with a little more elaboration when the event (battle, skirmish, etc) is more important. Anyone coming to this work expecting it to be something other than a single volume encyclopedia is either unaware of what an encyclopedia is or just likes to hear themselves be negative.
In deciding for myself how much I liked the volume I mostly read the entries for wars and conflicts with which I have more than a passing familiarity. In order to keep this book manageable some things were glossed over or omitted while others were given more space. A reader may well think one battle, for example, is more important than the space it is given. That does not mean either the editors nor the reader are wrong, they probably came at it from different perspectives. My study and research on wars were primarily cultural and intellectual history with enough military history thrown in so I could try to understand when something might have been done for military reasons and when something may have been done for political or appearance reasons. As such, I would probably highlight something that rightfully doesn't warrant it in a volume like this. So keep in mind the title of the book before criticizing it for being what it is not trying to be.
As a big aside, I can picture this being in a fiction writer's office, especially a writer of historical fiction, as a quick easy first step toward including any conflicts that might have been going on and impacted their characters, even if just to make the story more immersive. I personally hope to jump around in the book, mostly in the time periods in which I have the least knowledge, and use it as a springboard for more detailed reading.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (plus d'informations)