Category: War and Society
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Quotation and link to an article by Ned Blackhawk on the 150th anniversary of this atrocity.
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At Portal MilitĂ€rgeschichte, Markus Pöhlmann reports that a joint German-Russian digitization project has made available a substantial number of World War Oneâera German military documents at the Russian defense ministry’s central archive. There is also a digitized collection of the German secret services from 1912 to 1945. Additionally, the multi-volume…
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At a recent lecture on the Great War, Roger Chickering said, âI’m not a military historian.â1 The phrase stuck in my mind because he said it two more times during the course of the lecture and discussion. Iâm sure he was trying to avoid letting the discussion get sidetracked by…
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Last week I read Jörg Muth, Command Culture.1 The bookâs main subject is about training U.S. officers for war, and it draws on the German officer corps in the interwar period for its useful comparisons. I canât offer a review, because my own expertise lies more with the Imperial German…
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As I try to write an article about Groenerâs understanding of war, which led him to write about Schlieffenâs supposed ârecipe for victory,â, I have to keep asking myself, so what? I donât mean this is in a negative way. I havenât tired of this topic. But Iâm not always…
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Uploading one’s dissertation to the Internet Archive is certainly not for everybody, because publishers will not want to publish something that one can get elsewhere for free. Nonetheless, I took this big step after initially just making it available on GoogleDocs and Dropbox, where I had the freedom to delete…
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When writing my dissertation, I was forced to confront Terence Zuber’s claims that Wilhelm Groener and others had “invented” the Schlieffen Plan, and I wrote a section on the issue. The debate has continued since that time, with new evidence and articles emerging, but I have not seen any significant…
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Yesterday I asked how I could integrate the consumption history Iâm learning into my teaching, and I pointed to a couple examples where itâs already there. But I missed a glaringly obvious one: the Great War….
