Alfred Gollin
American historian
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- PhD History University of California, Berkeley
- Masters History University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alfred M. Gollin was an American scholar of European history. Early life and education Born on February 6, 1926, in New York City to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Gollin enlisted in the US Army in 1943 . He served in the field artillery in the European theater. After the war ended in Europe, Gollin was selected to attend New College, Oxford for a term as part of a program to send outstanding American soldiers to English universities. He returned to the US and earned his B.S. at City College of New York. William L. Langer and Sir John Myers encouraged him to return to Oxford for his B.A. He received the Cromwell Medal and the New College Essay Prize and earned his B.A. in 1951. He was appointed to an Extraordinary Lectureship in History at Oxford University and also served as official historian for The Observer for seven years. His D.Phil. thesis at Oxford was entitled "History of The Observer, 1905-1910".
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- The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (1989) (63)
- Proconsul in politics : a study of Lord Milner in opposition and in power (1965) (24)
- No Longer an Island: Britain and the Wright Brothers, 1902-1909 (1986) (21)
- The Impact of Air Power on the British People and Their Government, 1909-14 (1989) (16)
- England Is No Longer an Island: The Phantom Airship Scare of 1909 (1981) (9)
- The Observer and J.L. Garvin, 1908-1914 : a study in a great editorship (1960) (6)
- Balfour's burden : Arthur Balfour and imperial preference (1966) (5)
- Winston Churchill's World View: Statesmanship and Power@@@Churchill's World Crisis as History (1984) (5)
- The Mystery of Lord Haldane and Early British Military Aviation (1979) (3)
- The Wright brothers and the British authorities, 1902–1909 (1980) (2)
- A Flawed Strategy: Early British Air Defense Arrangements (1990) (1)
- French David. British Economic and Strategic Planning, 1905-1915. Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin. 1982. Pp. 191. $25.00. (1983) (1)
- Knights of the Air: The Life and Times of the Extraordinary Pioneers Who First Built British Aeroplanes (1989) (1)
- The Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1989) (0)
- Gordon Peter, editor. The Red Earl: The Papers of the Fifth Earl Spencer 1835–1910. Volume I 1835–1885. 1981. Pp. x, 328. $15.00. 1885–1910. Northhampton: Northamptonshire Record Society. 1986. Pp. xii, 387. $18.00 (1987) (0)
- Home Air Defence and Lamp-posts (1989) (0)
- Trevor Wilson. The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War. 1914–1918 . New York: Basil Blackwell, Inc.1986. Pp. xvi, 864. $24.95. (1988) (0)
- The Agitation for a National Air Force (1989) (0)
- Book Review:The War Ministry of Winston Churchill Maxwell Philip Schoenfeld (1973) (0)
- Malcolm Cooper. The Birth of Independent Air Power: British Air Policy in the First World War . Winchester, Mass.: Allen a Unwin, Inc.1986. Pp. ix, 169. $24.95. (1988) (0)
- Assessing Lloyd George (1988) (0)
- Stannage Tom. Baldwin Thwarts the Opposition: The British General Election of 1935 . London: Croom Helm; distributed by Biblio Distribution Center, Totowa, N.J. 1980. Pp. 320. $50.00. (1981) (0)
- Cole Robert. A. J. P. Taylor: The Traitor Within the Gates. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1993. Pp. xi, 285. $39.95. (1994) (0)
- The Paris Conference and its Consequences (1989) (0)
- Malcolm Smith. British Air Strategy between the Wars . New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 1984. Pp. xi, 360. $34.95. (1985) (0)
- Richard Symonds. Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause? New York: St. Martin's Press. 1986. Pp. xviii, 366. $29.95. (1987) (0)
- Woodbridge George. The Reform Club, 1836-1938. New York: Privately printed in association with the Clearwater Publishing Company. 1978. Pp. 185. $16.00. (1979) (0)
- The Origins of British Air Defence (1989) (0)
- The Phantom Airship Scare of 1909 (1989) (0)
- George Dangerfield: A Personal Account (1985) (0)
- Historians and the Great Crisis of 1903 (1976) (0)
- The Air Panic of 1913 (1989) (0)
- The Forward March of Aeronautics (1989) (0)
- Chisholm Anne and Davie Michael. Beaverbrook: A Life. London: Hutchinson. 1992. Pp. ix, 589. £20.00. (1993) (0)
- Balfour 1902–1911 (1974) (0)
- Startt James D.. Journalists for Empire: The Imperial Debate in the Edwardian Stately Press, 1903–1913. (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies, No. 29.) New York: Greenwood Press. 191. Pp. xii, 275. $49.50. (1992) (0)
- A. N. Porter. The Origins of the South African War: Joseph Chamberlain and the Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1895-1899 . New York: St. Martin's Press. 1980. Pp. 321. $22.50. (1980) (0)
- The New Arrangement and its Lapses (1989) (0)
- Alan Dobson. Peaceful Air Warfare: The United States, Britain, and the Politics of International Aviation . New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 1991. Pp. xiv, 307. $64.00. (1992) (0)
- Williamson Philip, editor. The Modernisation of Conservative Politics: The Diaries and Letters of William Bridgeman, 1904–1935. London: The Historians' Press, distributed by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. 1988. Pp. x, 270. $20.00. (1990) (0)
- Winston Churchill Takes Charge (1989) (0)
- The Beginning of Air Power Politics in Britain (1989) (0)
- Preparing for War with Germany (1989) (0)
- Twentieth Century British History. Volume 1, nos. 1–3 (1990). Edited by McKibben Ross and Rowett John. New York: Oxford University Press. 1990. Pp. 356. $60.00 institutions, $40.00 individuals. (1991) (0)
- Introductory: Britain in the Air Age (1989) (0)
- Lord Northcliffe's Change of Course (1962) (0)
- Dilks David. Neville Chamberlain. Volume One: Pioneering and Reform, 1869-1929. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. xv, 645. $29.95. (1985) (0)
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