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The First World War: The Essential Guide to Sources in the UK National Archives (review)
In: The journal of military history, Band 68, Heft 2, S. 623-624
ISSN: 1543-7795
Review: The First World War: The Essential Guide to Sources in the UK National Archives (review)
In: The journal of military history, Band 68, Heft 2, S. 623
ISSN: 0899-3718
Allies in Conflict: The British and Canadian Official Historians and the Real Story of Second Ypres (1915
In: Journal of contemporary history, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 301-325
ISSN: 1461-7250
Allies in Conflict: The British and Canadian Official Historians and the Real Story of Second Ypres (1915)
In: Journal of contemporary history, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 301
ISSN: 0022-0094
Men at war: politics, technology and innovation in the twentieth century
"The growing number of books on military history and the lively interest in military history courses at colleges and universities show that the study of war is enjoying considerable popularity. The reasons for this are arguable, but of immediate interest is the kind of military history that is taught and written. Here the student of war comes across an interesting division of opinion as to how military history should be written. Military history, lying as it does on the frontier between history and military science, requires knowledge of both fields. This fact often presents a difficulty to the history teacher.Generally speaking, history is a discipline by virtue of its subject matter, not by virtue of a particular methodology such as is characteristic of the sciences and of some social sciences. The perspective of Men at War is a cross between a professional internalist approach and a civilian contextual view. This separation is not unique to military history, for the same dualism tends to occur in those areas of history, such as law and medicine, that can be written both by members of the profession concerned? lawyers and doctors? and by those outside the profession.The problem is that at one extreme the contextual view can take the emotional content out of war, while at the other extreme the internalist view can put too much in. Men at War seeks to locate a military history that combines the professional, internalist method and the civilian, contextual method by showing that these are two fundamental sources from which a war derives. Seen in this way, this volume breaks new ground in defining the sources of twentieth-century power."--Provided by publisher.