Guide to history

The signpost to history is since 2005 in publishing Ferdinand Schöningh published book series , the "History of crisis areas" is dedicated to. It was founded by the Military History Research Office and has been published since 2013 (on behalf of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr ). The illustrated series of publications was created in the Mission Support (MEU) module and, according to its own statements, is aimed at Bundeswehr soldiers on deployments abroad and the politically and historically interested public with general and military historical results .

Individual volumes of the now fifteen-volume series were received largely positively in German feature pages and in academic reviews. Ekkehard Kohrs found for the first three volumes that “numerous experts presented historical and political regional studies in an understandable, clear and illustrated form”. These are currently the “most up-to-date and thorough” on the respective subject areas. According to Wilfried von Bredow , it is a "meritorious series".

For Sven Felix Kellerhoff the series - albeit at a higher level - is in the tradition of the “Pocket Guide to Germany”, which was issued by the United States Department of War in the run-up to Operation Overlord (1944) .

Publications

Overview of the individual volumes:

• Agilolf Keßelring (Ed.): Bosnia-Herzegovina . 2005, ISBN 3-506-72976-4 .

• 2nd revised and expanded edition, 2007.

• Bernhard Chiari (Ed.): Afghanistan . 2006, ISBN 3-506-75664-8 .

• 3rd revised and expanded edition, 2009.

• Bernhard Chiari, Dieter H. Kollmer (Ed.): Democratic Republic of the Congo . 2006, ISBN 3-506-75745-8 .

• 3rd revised edition with the assistance of Magnus Pahl, 2008.

• Bernhard Chiari , Agilolf Keßelring (ed.): Kosovo . 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-75665-7 .
• Bernhard Chiari, Dieter H. Kollmer (Ed.): Middle East . 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-76371-6 .

• 2nd revised and expanded edition with the collaboration of Martin Rink , 2009.

• Dieter H. Kollmer, Andreas Mückusch (Ed.): Horn of Africa . 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-76397-6 .
• Bernhard Chiari with the collaboration of Dieter H. Kollmer (Ed.): Sudan . 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76396-9 .
• Bernhard Chiari (Ed.): Caucasus . 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76587-1 .
• Bernhard Chiari, Magnus Pahl (Ed.): Uzbekistan . 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76880-3 .
• Bernhard Chiari, Magnus Pahl: Foreign missions of the Bundeswehr . 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76914-5 .
• Bernhard Chiari, Conrad Schetter (Ed.): Pakistan . 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76908-4 .
• Martin Hofbauer , Thorsten Loch (Ed.): North Africa . 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77326-5 .
• Martin Hofbauer, Philipp Münch (Ed.): Mali . 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77884-0

• 2nd updated edition edited by Torsten Konopka, 2016.

• Dieter H. Kollmer, Torsten Konopka , Martin Rink (eds.): Central Africa . In cooperation with the National Defense Academy of the Austrian Armed Forces, 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-78470-4 .
• Bernd Lemke with the assistance of Stefan Maximillian Brenner (ed.): Irak und Syrien . 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78662-3 .

Web links

• Guide to the history of the Ferdinand Schöningh publishing house

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Jochen Bittner : Travel Guide to the War . In: Die Zeit , No. 32, July 31, 2008; Dagmar Dehmer : In the knapsack . In: Der Tagesspiegel , No. 19273, August 7, 2006 p. 7; Michael Martens : Paths of Knowledge . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 27, 2006, No. 49, p. 7.
2. ↑ See Marie-Janine Calic : Kosovo. Guide to the history of Bernhard Chiari, Agilolf Keßelring . In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe NF 56 (2008) 1, p. 151 f .; Thomas Bremer : Bosnia-Herzegovina. Guide to the history of Agilolf Keßelring . In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe NF 56 (2008) 4, p. 628; Andreas Hilger : Review by: Bernhard Chiari (ed.): Afghanistan, Paderborn: Schöningh 2006 , in: sehepunkte 7 (2007), No. 1 [15. January 2007].
3. ↑ Ekkehard Kohrs : Background knowledge for crisis operations . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , August 16, 2006, p. 22.
4. ↑ Wilfried von Bredow : Orientation. The Caucasus conflict region . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 3, 2008, No. 257, p. 8.
5. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : well-intentioned guide for the German Army . In: Die Welt , July 6, 2006, No. 155, p. 8.
6. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : The travel guide for Afghanistan. How the Bundeswehr's task force is explained to its new operational area . In: Die Welt , January 31, 2008, No. 26, p. 26.