Tag Academics
Intervention in Russia: 1918-1920, A Cautionary Tale, is a very well written account of a little known part of the First World War. Mr. Hudson writes in the style that I find to be the most readable and enjoyable…. Continue Reading →
The title of this piece is a very good question in my opinion. The question really came home to me recently when I was reading the Calls for Papers in the bi-annual newsletter of the Society of Military History of… Continue Reading →
Updated 24 June 2014 — Below the fold is a list of historical sources on the internet, this includes both primary and secondary source collections. I am constantly updating this list when I run across useful sites. Please point me at… Continue Reading →
Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, is one of the best economic histories I have read.  It seeks to be a global history of money and does a good job of it.  It is somewhat… Continue Reading →
I received notification this morning that my first Peer-Reviewed article has been accepted for publication. It is an annotated bibliography of Frederick the Great for Oxford University Press (OUP) Online and it has taken me awhile to write it… Continue Reading →
[FULL DISCLOSURE: I received my copy of this book free from the author. I was not paid for this review and the opinion expressed is purely my own] At first glance Why Germany Nearly Won: A New History of the… Continue Reading →
Both Sun-Tzu and Clausewitz have something to offer for the serious student of warfare. The biggest distinction between the two seems to be their different approaches to the art of war. Sun-Tzu advocates a more subtle and indirect… Continue Reading →
The work of neither Sun Tzu nor Clausewitz is adequate to describe naval warfare except in the most general terms. While it is true that until recent times warfare on both land and sea was largely two dimensional, there are… Continue Reading →
This book is an interesting read to say the least, Dr. Citino makes the case that there is a specifically German “way of warâ€. That way, is what he calls operational maneuver. He traces the development of this “way of… Continue Reading →
Is there such a thing? That question hit me this morning as I was reading a book review in an old copy of the Journal of Military History. The book in question was Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns… Continue Reading →
Well, I figured it is time for another update. I have made the first round of changes to my rough draft and turned them back in and my thesis made it past my professor and is now in the… Continue Reading →
I got my rough draft back from my Thesis professor this morning with the first round of requested corrections. It actually looks much better than I thought it would. There are not as many corrections as I expected… Continue Reading →
I figured I would touch on post-modernism/post-structuralism and my personal opinion of the phenomenon because I am seeing it more and more in contemporary academics. Let me preface this whole post by saying up-front that I think the whole post-modernist… Continue Reading →
I got my first article published this past week. I belong to the Society for Military History and in a recent society newsletter, they asked for people who had recently worked in an archive to submit a guide. … Continue Reading →
Well, I just finished the final revisions to my rough draft before I submit it. It is a great felling. The final paper ended up at 85 pages and it was actually much easier to write than I… Continue Reading →