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Nome legale
Crowl, Philip Axtell
Data di nascita
1914-12-17
Data di morte
1991-05-05
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Luogo di morte
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Istruzione
Swarthmore College
Yale University Law School
University of Iowa
Johns Hopkins University
Attività lavorative
historian
intelligence officer
Organizzazioni
United States Navy (WWII)
United States Naval War College (Ernest J. King Professor of History and Chair of Department of Strategy, 1973-1980)
University of Nebraska (Professor of History and Chair of the History Department)
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Philip A. Crowl (1914-1991) was a military historian who taught at universities and conducted research for the United States government, and also served as an intelligence officer. He taught at Princeton University, the University of Nebraska, and the U.S. Naval War College.Crowl attended Swarthmore College, earning an A.B. degree in 1936, and attended Yale University Law School for postgraduate work in 1937. He earned a masters degree in history from the University of Iowa in 1939 and a doctorate in history from Johns Hopkins University in 1942. Crowl began teaching at Princeton University as an instructor in history from 1941 to 1942. He then left academia to serve in the United States Navy, serving from 1942 to 1945 in the Pacific and reaching the rank of lieutenant commander. His service in the navy influenced his life-long study and interest in naval and military history. Following his military service, Crowl returned to Princeton, where he was an assistant professor of history from 1945 to 1949. His first book, Maryland During and After the American Revolution, was published in 1943.In 1949, Crowl left Princeton to serve as a civilian historian for the Office of the Chief of Military History of the United States Army in Washington, D.C., and remained in that position until 1957. He then became an intelligence officer for the United States Department of State, serving in this post from 1957 to 1967. He published many works on military history during this period of his career, including The U.S. Marines and Amphibious War with J. A. Isley (1951), Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls with E. G. Love (1955), and Campaign in the Marianas (1961). In 1964, Crowl took a six month leave of absence from the Department of State to serve as director of the John Foster Dulles Oral History Project at Princeton University, and continued to act as a consultant on the project until 1966. He had previously managed a project to microfilm Dulles material at the State Department and to obtain photocopies of Dulles papers at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library for Princeton University.Crowl returned to academia in 1967 as professor of history and chair of the department of history at the University of Nebraska from 1967 to 1973. He made his last career move in 1973, becoming the Ernest J. King Professor of History and chair of the department of strategy at the U. S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He retired professor emeritus in 1980. Following his retirement, Crowl wrote three travel books, Intelligent Traveller's Guides to Historic Britain (1983), Scotland (1986), and Ireland (1990). These books allowed him to combine his interest in travel and in British history.Philip Axtell Crowl was born in Dayton, Ohio on December 17, 1914 to Frank D. and Clementine (Axtell) Crowl. He married Mary Ellen Wood on September 9, 1943 and they had three daughters: Ellen Wood, Catherine, and Margaret. Crowl died on May 5, 1991 in Washington, D.C.

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An excellent, brief history of Great Britain which is keyed to a county-by-county description of places of historic interest to visit. Mr. Crowl is a graceful writer, and has impeccable taste. I am in the midst of planning the fourth trip to Britain for which I have used Mr. Crowl's work as a guide, and I wouldn't dream of planning one without him. Given the book's age, logistical information like hours and fees has to be found in other guides but for keen appreciation of what sites are truly worth the time to visit, and the historical context in which they appear, Mr. Crowl is simply indispensable.… (altro)
 
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Peter.Kierst | 1 altra recensione | Apr 28, 2021 |
Half the book is narrative history, the other half is a gazetteer of areas of England with links between the two. No pictures.
 
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Mapguy314 | 1 altra recensione | Apr 15, 2019 |

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