MacGregor Knox

MacGregor Knox (* 1945 ) is an American historian .

Life

The son of British-born Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox and writer Bianca VanOrden studied at Harvard University and graduated with a BA in 1967. He graduated from Yale University with an MA and a PhD in 1977. Between Harvard and Yale, he served in the US Army, including a deployment to Vietnam in 1969 as a platoon leader with the 173rd Airborne Brigade. He has taught at the University of Rochester . He taught Stevenson Professor of International History at the London School of Economics from 1994 to 2010 .

As a historian, Knox specialized in the political, military and diplomatic history of Europe in the late 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the two world wars and the emergence of dictatorship in the 1920s and 1930s. His first book, Mussolini Unleashed, won the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize in 1982. He is fluent in French, Italian and German.

Fonts (selection)

• Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-1941. Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy's Last War . Cambridge 1982, ISBN 0-521-23917-6 .
• Hitler 's Italian Allies. Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940-43 . Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-79047-6 .
• Common Destiny. Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany . Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-58208-3 .
• To the Threshold of Power, 1922/33. Origins and Dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist Dictatorships . Cambridge 2007, ISBN 0-521-87860-8 .

Web links

• Emeritus Professor MacGregor Knox