Dennis Showalter

Dennis Edwin Showalter (born February 12, 1942 in Delona , Minnesota , † December 30, 2019 in Colorado Springs ) was an American military historian .

Life

He received his bachelor's degree from Saint John's University (AB) in Minnesota in 1963 . At the University of Minnesota (AM) followed in 1965 the master and 1969 with Otto plant the Ph.D. In 1969 he became Assistant Professor to Professor at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1997/98 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor and 2001/02 Mc Dermott Chair at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. In 2005 he held the Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History at the United States Air Force Academy and in 2007 the Perspectives in Military History Lecture Series at the United States Army War College .

From 1997 to 2001 he was President of the Society for Military History . He was the founding editor of War in History , editor of the Oxford Bibliographies in Military History, and series editor of Modern War Studies ( University of Kansas Press ) and Brassey's Military Profiles . He also advised the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Military History Quarterly magazine .

His research focus was German military history .

Showalter received several grants (including Fulbright ) and prizes:

1981: Moncado Prize, American Military Institute
1986: Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award
1992: Paul Birdsall Prize , American Historical Association
2000: Clio Award, Department of History, United States Air Force Academy
2002: Victor Gondos Memorial Service Award, Society for Military History
2005: Samuel Eliot Morison Prize , Society for Military History
2005: Gresham Riley Achievement Award, Colorado College
2007: Spencer Tucker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Military History, ABC-CLIO
2011: Lloyd E. Worner Teacher of the Year Award, Colorado College
2018: Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing

with Johannes Steinhoff and Peter Pechel : Voices from the Third Reich. An oral history. Regnery Gateway, Washington DC 1989, ISBN 0-89526-766-7
The wars of Frederick the Great. Longman, London et al. 1996, ISBN 0-582-06260-8 . (Later as: Frederick the Great. A Military History. Revised edition, includes a new introduction and further reading material. Frontline Books, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-84832-640-8 ).
Tannenberg. Clash of empires. Archon Books, Hamden CT 1991, ISBN 0-208-02252-X .
Patton and Rommel. Men of War in the Twentieth Century. Berkley Books, New York NY 2004, ISBN 0-425-19346-2 .
The Wars of German Unification. Arnold, London 2004, ISBN 0-340-73210-5 .
with William J. Astore : Hindenburg. Icon of German militarism. Potomac Books, Washington DC 2005, ISBN 1-57488-654-1 .
Hitler's tank. The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare. Berkley Caliber, New York NY 2009, ISBN 978-0-425-23004-6 .

Michael S. Neiberg (Ed.): Arms and the Man. Military History Essays in Honor of Dennis Showalter (= History of Warfare. 68). Brill, Leiden et al. 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-20668-7 .

personal data
SURNAME	Showalter, Dennis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Showalter, Dennis Edwin; Showalter, Dennis E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American historian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Delano , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH	December 30, 2019
Place of death	Colorado Springs