Geoffrey Wawro

Geoffrey Wawro (* 1960 ) is an American military historian .

Wawro graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and earned a Ph.D. in Modern History from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Vienna . From 2000 to 2005 he was Professor of Strategic Studies at Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. In 2005 he became Professor of History and Director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas at Denton, Texas. From 2000 to 2009 he also worked for the History Channel .

He is co-editor of the Cambridge Military Histories series with Hew Strachan . He published in national newspapers / magazines and scientific journals and is the author of several military history works.

He received the Society for Military History's 1996 Moncado Prize (for his Journal of Military History article, "An 'Army of Pigs'. The Technical, Social and Political Bases of Austrian Shock Tactics, 1859-1866").

Fonts

• The Austro-Prussian War (1996)
• Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792-1914 (2000)
• The Franco-Prussian War (2003)
• Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East (2010)
• A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire (2014)

Web links

• Brief CV of Geoffrey Wawro on battleofideas.org.uk