Samuel W. Mitcham

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Samuel Wayne Mitcham, Jr. (born January 2, 1949 in Mer Rouge , Louisiana ) is an American officer , geographer and military writer specializing in World War II and the German Wehrmacht .

Life

Mitcham's mother was a local journalist. He studied journalism at Northeast Louisiana University and North Carolina State University . His Ph.D. in geography from the University of Tennessee in 1986 . During the Vietnam War he served as a helicopter pilot and company commander in the US Army. He attended Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas and was promoted to major general in the reserve.

He initially taught at Henderson State University and Georgia Southern University and then became an Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. In addition, he was u. a. Visiting Professor at the United States Military Academy , West Point, Virginia. Mitcham is the author of numerous military historical writings that have also been translated into other languages. He was a consultant u. a. used by CBS , BBC and the History Channel .

Mitcham is married and has two children. He lives in Monroe , Louisiana .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Gene Mueller: Hitler's commanders . Cooper, London 1992, ISBN 0-85052-308-7 .
  • Why Hitler ?: the genesis of the Nazi Reich . Praeger, Westport 1996, ISBN 0-275-95485-4 .
  • The rise of the Wehrmacht: the German armed forces and World War II . 2 volumes, Praeger Security Internat., Westport 1998, ISBN 978-0-275-99641-3 .
  • Retreat to the Reich: the German defeat in France, 1944 . Praeger, Westport 2000, ISBN 0-275-96857-X .
  • The Panzer legions: a guide to the German Army tank divisions of World War II and their commanders . Greenwood Press, Westport 2001, ISBN 0-313-31640-6 .
  • Hitler's Field Marshals and their battles . Cooper Square Press, New York 2001, ISBN 0-8154-1130-8 .
  • Panzers in winter: Hitler's army and the battle of the bulge . Praeger Security Internat., Westport 2006, ISBN 0-275-97115-5 .
  • Rommel's lieutenants: the men who served the Desert Fox, France, 1940 . Praeger Security Internat., Westport 2006, ISBN 0-275-99185-7 .
  • Rommel's desert commanders: the men who served the Desert Fox, North Africa, 1941-1942 . Praeger Security Internat., Westport 2007, ISBN 978-0-275-99436-5 .
  • The Siegfried Line: the German defense of the west wall, September - December 1944 (= The Stackpole military history series ). Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg 2009, ISBN 978-0-8117-3602-2 .
  • Defenders of fortress Europe: the untold story of the German officers during the Allied invasion . Potomac Books, Washington, DC 2009, ISBN 978-1-59797-274-1 .
  • Eagles of the Third Reich: leaders of the Luftwaffe in the Second World War (= Crécy classic ). Crécy Publ., Manchester 2010, ISBN 978-0-85979-149-6 .
  • Blitzkrieg no longer: the German Wehrmacht in battle, 1943 . Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley 2010, ISBN 978-1-84884-302-8 .

literature

  • Dorothy Mae Draughn: Been there, done that . In: Northeast Louisiana University (Ed.): A Family Tradition: Chacahoula 1997 . Vol. 64, Monroe 1997, pp. 306-7.

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personal data
SURNAME Mitcham, Samuel W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mitcham, Samuel Wayne Jr. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American officer, geographer, and military writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Mer Rouge , Louisiana