Dennis Showalter (1942–2019)
Autore di If the Allies Had Fallen : Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II
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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 mostra altro 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. mostra meno
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MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 2009 (2009) — Author "In Review: Masters and Commanders" — 7 copie
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- Data di nascita
- 1942-02-12
- Data di morte
- 2019-12-30
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- University of Minnesota
St. John's University - Attività lavorative
- professor
historian - Organizzazioni
- Colorado College
Society for Military History - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Samuel Eliot Morison Prize (2005)
- Breve biografia
- 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.
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- 19
- ISBN
- 80
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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.… (altro)