Arms and the Man

by Neiberg, Michael S.

• ISBN13: 9789004206687
• ISBN10: 900420668X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-31
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

These essays honor Dennis Showalter, a pioneer in the field of military history and a mentor to an entire generation of scholars. The essays themselves are written by some of the best-known and most highly-respected scholars in the field. They span the globe and cover a wide range of military history topics from the ancient world to the present day. As a group, this book represents not only a collection in honor of a great scholar, but a collection of some of the highest-quality cutting-edge scholarship in the field today. It will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the history of warfare.Contributors are William J. Astore, Mary Kathryn Barbier, Jeremy Black, Robert M. Citino, Kelly DeVries, Richard L. DiNardo, Robert A. Doughty, Holger H. Herwig, Eugenia C. Kiesling, Robert McJimsey, Michael S. Neiberg and Dennis Showalter.

Author Biography

Michael S. Neiberg, Ph.D. (1996) in History, Carnegie-Mellon University, is Professor of History at University of Southern Mississippi. He has wide-ranging publications on World War I, most notably Fighting the Great War: A Global History (Harvard, 2005).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Loving the German War Machine: America's Infatuation with Blitzkrieg, Warfighters, and Militarism	p. 5
'Clash of the Titans': Law vs Security in World War II Britain	p. 31
Military Cultures, Military Histories and the Current Emergency	p. 63
Manstein, the Battle of Kharkov, and the Limits of Command	p. 83
The Question of Medieval Military Professionalism	p. 113
Modern Soldier in a Busby: August von Mackensen, 1914-1916	p. 131
Winning and Losing: France on the Marne and on the Meuse	p. 169
The Forgotten Campaign: Alsace-Lorraine August 1914	p. 193
"Total War, Total Nonsense" or "The Military Historian's Fetish"	p. 215
England's "Descent" on France and the Origins of Blue-water Strategy	p. 243
Conclusion	p. 259
List of Books by Dennis Showalter	p. 267
Select Bibliography	p. 269
Index	p. 273
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