Maurice Matloff
Maurice Matloff ( 1915 - July 14, 1993 in Rockville , Maryland ) was an American military historian . He was the chief historian of the US Army and a recognized authority on the military strategic planning of the US armed forces during World War II.
Matloff was a military historian as early as World War II and was involved in the official history of the 4th US Air Fleet. From 1946 he was (as a civilian) at the US Army Center for Military History in Washington DC, where he was senior historian from 1970 until his retirement in 1981.
The book he published on American military history was a standard work at colleges in the United States.
Fonts (selection)
- Editor and co-author: American Military History, 2 volumes, reprint Da Capo 1996
- with Edwin M. Snell: Strategic planning for coalition warfare , US Army Center for Military History 1951 (later edition in two volumes)
- Allied Strategy in Europe, 1939-1945 , in Peter Paret (ed.), Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986
- Publisher: American Wars and Heros, Random House 1988
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| SURNAME | Matloff, Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American military historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1915 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1993 |
| Place of death | Rockville, Maryland |