John W. Shy

John W. Shy (* 1931 ) is an American military historian . He is a professor at the University of Michigan and mainly dealt with the American Revolutionary War and is considered an authority on its military history in the USA.

Shy holds a master's degree from the University of Vermont and a PhD from Princeton University . He then taught at Princeton before becoming a professor at the University of Michigan in 1968 and, upon arriving at the university, founded a military history study group. In 1974 he gave the Harmon Memorial Lecture in Military History at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. In 1974/75 he was visiting professor ( Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History ) of the Military History Research Collection at the US Army War College Library.

Fonts (selection)

with Peter Paret : Guerrillas in the 1960s (= Princeton Studies in World Politics, No. 1). Praeger, New York 1961.
Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution, Princeton University Press 1965
A people numerous and armed. Reflections on the military struggle for american independence, Oxford University Press 1976, 2nd edition 1990
Jomini , in Peter Paret: Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age , Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986
Shy History and the history of war , George C. Marshall Lecture 2008, pdf , J. of Military History, Volume 72, 2008, 1033-1046

personal data
SURNAME	Shy, John W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American military historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1931