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Author: Afflerbach, Holger; Strachan, Hew
ISBN: 9780199693627

by Holger Afflerbach (Editor); Hew Strachan (Editor)

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Title How Fighting Ends: A History of Surrender
Author Holger Afflerbach (Editor); Hew Strachan (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Edition First Edition
Pages 520
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Oxford University Press (UK), Oxford
Date 2012-09-29
Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780199693627 / 0199693625
Weight 2.25 lbs (1.02 kg)
Dimensions 10.5 x 6.7 x 1.4 in (26.67 x 17.02 x 3.56 cm)
Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Military
Library of Congress subjects War - History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012002672
Dewey Decimal Code 355.02

About the author

Holger Afflerbach, from 2002-2006, was DAAD Professor of History at Emory University. Afflerbach specializes in late nineteenth and twentieth Century German history; international relations; military history, particularly World War I and World War II; and Austrian and Italian history. Among his publications are the biography of the Prussian War Minister and Chief of General Staff Erich von Falkenhayn (Munich 1994, second edition 1996); his study of the Triple Alliance, entitled Der Dreibund. Europaische Grossmacht und Allianzpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Vienna 2002); and a popular book on the history of the Atlantic: Das entfesselte Meer (Munich, 2002). He also edited an edition of sources from the German Headquarters in World War I under the title Kaiser Wilhelm II: als Oberster Kriegsherr wahrend des Ersten Weltkrieges - Quellen aus der militarischen Umgebung des Kaisers (Munich, 2005). He is is Professor of Central European History at the University of Leeds.

Hew Strachan's research interests are military history from the eighteenth century to date, including contemporary strategic studies, but with particular interest in the First World War and in the history of the British Army. Among his numerous publications are: European Armies and the Conduct of War (London, 1983); Wellington's Legacy: The Reform of the British Army 1830-54 (Manchester, 1984); From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, Technology and the British Army (Cambridge, 1985); The Politics of the British Army (Oxford, 1997); (ed.) The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (Oxford, 1998); The First World War: A New Illustrated History (London, 2003). He is Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls College, Oxford.