The Writing of Official Military History

Herausgeber: Higham, Robin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides students, faculty, and general readers with specific information and insights into the ways in which official military history has been written and why. Coverage is international in scope. The volume serves as an introduction to two forthcoming books: Official Military Histories Since 1967: Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and India and Official Military Histories Since 1967: The Western Hemisphere and the Pacific Rim. Together, the three books will provide the only comprehensive source of information on historical offices and official histories since Robin Higham's classic book, Official Histories, was published in 1970. Together, the three books will provide the only comprehensive source of information on historical offices and official histories since Robin Higham's classic book, Official Histories, was published in 1970.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780313308635
• ISBN-10: 0313308632
• Artikelnr.: 25565916

Autorenporträt

ROBIN HIGHAM taught military history at Kansas State University from 1963 to 1998. He is the author of more than 140 articles, 14 monographs and the editor of numerous bibliographical volumes. He was the editor of Military Affairs from 1968 to 1988 and Aerospace Historian from 1970 to 1988, and has been editor of The Journal of the West since 1977.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Robin Higham Objectives and Methodology of Military
Historiography by the Working Group "Objectives and Methodology of Military
Historiography" The Institute of Military History of the German Democratic
Republic: Objectives and Results by Paul Heider Of Aphorisms, Lessons, and
Paradigms: Comparing the British and German Official Histories of the
Russo-Japanese War by Gary P. Cox John Fortescue, James Edmonds, and the
History of the Great War: A Case of Ritual Murder by John Hussey The Making
of Air History, by the Library of Congress; Italian Service Histories and
Fascist Italy's War Effort by James J. Sadkovich Association with Franklin
D. Roosevelt a Memoir by Dudley W. Knox When Clio Marries Mars: The Combat
Historian by Lt. Col. F.D.G. Williams and Robert K. Wright "The Campaign in
Norwa" and Official Histories--A Demi-Centenary Review by Robin Higham
Appendix: Medical Histories of War Index