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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dennis Edwin Showalter was a professor emeritus of history at Colorado College. Showalter specialized in German military history. He was president of the American Society for Military History from 1997 to 2001. In addition, Showalter was an advising fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the University of North Texas.
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- Book Review: Hitler's Army, Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich (1993) (50)
- Images of the Mexican American in fiction and film (1980) (43)
- Representation and computation of the pseudoinverse (1967) (38)
- The American Civil War and the origins of modern warfare (1988) (36)
- Railroads and Rifles: Soldiers, Technology, and the Unification of Germany (1976) (33)
- Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity Through the Twenty-First Century (2006) (24)
- The Wars of German Unification (2004) (23)
- The wars of Frederick the Great (1995) (22)
- Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, 1871–1914. Edited by Manfred F. Boemeke, Roger Chickering, and Stig Förster. Publications of the German Historical Institute. Washington D.C.: German Historical Institute; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. ix+496. $59.95. (2001) (22)
- Voices From The Third Reich: An Oral History (1989) (20)
- Bad Strategies: How Major Powers Fail in Counterinsurgency (2008) (16)
- Mass Warfare and the Impact of Technology (2000) (15)
- From Deterrence to Doomsday Machine: The German Way of War, 1890–1914 (2000) (14)
- Tannenberg: Clash of Empires (1991) (14)
- The Enigmatic Chancellor: Bethmann Hollweg and the Hubris of Imperial Germany (1973) (13)
- Little Man, What Now: Der Sturmer in the Weimar Republic (1982) (13)
- The Halder War Diary 1939-1942 (1990) (12)
- Moltke, Schlieffen and Prussian War Planning. (1993) (11)
- Caste, Skill, and Training: The Evolution of Cohesion in European Armies from the Middle Ages to the Sixteenth Century (1993) (11)
- Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse (2005) (10)
- The “Jewish Threat”: Anti‐Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army (2002) (10)
- Hubertusberg to Auerstädt: The Prussian Army in Decline? (1994) (9)
- The Retaming of Bellona: Prussia and the Institutionalization of the Napoleonic Legacy, 1815-1876 (1980) (9)
- Researching World War I: A Handbook (2003) (9)
- The final battle: soldiers of the western front and the German revolution of 1918 (2012) (9)
- A Modest Plea for Drums and Trumpets (1975) (8)
- Prussian–German Operational Art, 1740–1943 (2010) (7)
- The Cambridge History of War (2012) (7)
- Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century (2005) (7)
- The United States in the Great War A Historiography (2002) (6)
- More Than Nuts and Bolts: Technology and the German Army, 1870–1945 (2002) (5)
- Soldiers into Postmasters? The Electric Telegraph as an Instrument of Command in the Prussian Army (1973) (5)
- Information Capabilities and Military Revolutions: The Nineteenth-Century Experience (2004) (5)
- Sieg Heil! War Letters of Tank Gunner Karl Fuchs, 1937-1941 (1987) (5)
- German Grand Strategy: A Contradiction in Terms? (1990) (5)
- The Prussian Military State (2004) (5)
- Belonging and Genocide: Hitler's Community, 1918-1945 (review) (2012) (5)
- Infantry Weapons, Infantry Tactics, and the Armies of Germany, I849-64 (1974) (5)
- The Prussian Landwehr and Its Critics, 1813–1819 (1971) (4)
- The Eastern Front, 1914-1920: From Tannenberg to the Russo-Polish War (2009) (4)
- Little Man, What Now? Der Sturmer in the Weimar Republic (1983) (4)
- Tannenberg: Clash of Empires, 1914 (1991) (4)
- Imagery and Realism: The Two Faces of Black Hawk Down (2002) (4)
- Prussian Cavalry 1806-1871: The Search for Roles (1976) (4)
- Debating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Foreign Policies, 1933–1945. By Justus D. Doenecke and Mark A. Stoler. (New York, N.Y.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.Pp. vi, 238. $72.00.) (2007) (4)
- By the book? Commanders Surrendering in World War I (2012) (3)
- The dynamics of military revolution 1300—2050: The Prusso-German RMA, 1840–1871 (2001) (3)
- Doctoral Dissertations in Military History (2003) (3)
- Publication and Stagnation in the Liberal Arts College. (1978) (3)
- Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942. By Robert M. Citino. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Pp. xiv, 431. $34.95.) (2010) (3)
- An American Dilemma, Vietnam, 1964-1973. (1994) (3)
- Heinlein’s Starship Troopers: An Exercise in Rehabilitation (1975) (3)
- German military history, 1648-1982 : a critical bibliography (1984) (3)
- Manifestation of Reform: The Rearmament of the Prussian Infantry, 1806-13 (1972) (3)
- Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism (2005) (3)
- “The East Gives Nothing Back”: The Great War and the German Army in Russia (2002) (3)
- War and the modern world (2012) (3)
- The German High Command at War (1994) (3)
- Diplomacy and the Military in France and Prussia, 1870 (1971) (2)
- Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust (review) (2012) (2)
- The Politics of Bureaucracy in the Weimar Republic: The Case of Julius Streicher (1983) (2)
- Hitler's War in the East. A Critical Assessment, by Rolf-Dieter Mueller and Gerd Ueberschaer (2011) (2)
- Past and Future: The Military Crisis of the Weimar Republic (1996) (2)
- The Shadows of Total War: Plans, Weapons, Doctrines: The Strategic Cultures of Interwar Europe (2003) (2)
- 4. The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917–18: An Imperial Turning Point (2011) (2)
- The French Campaign in Portugal, 1810-1811: An Account by Jean Jacques Pelet (1973) (2)
- Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy Snyder (2011) (2)
- The Homesick Revolutionaries: Soldiers’ Councils and Newspaper Propaganda in German-Occupied Eastern Europe, 1918-1919 (1976) (2)
- LETTERS TO DER STÜRMER: THE MOBILIZATION OF HOSTILITY IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC (1983) (2)
- Dien Bien Phu in Three Cultures (1998) (2)
- Commemorating war, 1914–1945 (2012) (1)
- The chancellor's spy: The revelations of the chief of Bismarck's secret service (1980) (1)
- The Great War and Its Historiography (2006) (1)
- The search for peace in the interwar period (2012) (1)
- The Political Soldiers of Bismarck's Germany: Myths and Realities (1994) (1)
- Germany at war : 400 years of military history (2014) (1)
- Europe’s Way of War, 1815–64 (2002) (1)
- A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee's Triumph, 1862-1863 (2011) (1)
- The War for the German Mind: Re-Educating Hitler's Soldiers . By Arthur L. Smith Jr Providence and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 1996. Pp. x + 214. $39.95. ISBN 1-57181-892-8. (1997) (1)
- What If? Strategic Alternatives of WWII (1999) (1)
- War in the East and Balkans, 1914–18 (2010) (1)
- Even Generals Wet Their Pants: The First Three Weeks in East Prussia, August 1914 (1984) (1)
- Hitler's Guard: The Story of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, 1933–1945: Weingartner, James J.: Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 194 pp., Publication Date: November 21, 1974 (1975) (1)
- The Crucible of War: Western Desert, 1941 (1981) (1)
- Mass Multiplied by Impulsion: The Influence of Railroads on Prussian Planning for the Seven Weeks' War (1974) (1)
- Fighting Soldier: The AEF in 1918 by Joseph Douglas Lawrence and Robert H. Ferrell (1987) (1)
- War and imperial expansion (2012) (1)
- Archie Bunker, Lenny Bruce, and Ben Cartwright: Taboo‐Breaking and Character Identification in “All in the Family” (1975) (1)
- List Of Books (2011) (1)
- Napoleon's Last Campaign in Germany (2011) (1)
- Military captivity in two world wars (2012) (1)
- Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein – Niall Barr (2006) (1)
- A Linear Discipline in a Modular Curriculum. (1975) (0)
- Failed, broken, or galvanized? (2014) (0)
- War and memory since 1945 (2012) (0)
- Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories . By Omer Bartov. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2003. Pp. xxi + 248. $18.95. ISBN 0-8014-8681-5. (2005) (0)
- Editorial Board (2011) (0)
- A hinge in time: the wars of the mid nineteenth century (2012) (0)
- Doctoral Dissertations in Military History (2007) (0)
- Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism. By Jonathan A. Grant. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+288. $49.95. (2009) (0)
- Wilhelm II and the Germans. A Study in Leadership (1993) (0)
- The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism (2000) (0)
- Editorial (2004) (0)
- Comment on Mosier's War Myths (2012) (0)
- Panel III: Introduction (1993) (0)
- Book Review: America, the Vietnam War, and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives (2005) (0)
- The Siege of Strasbourg. By Rachel Chrastil.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi+302. $39.95. (2015) (0)
- Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich . By Stephen G. Fritz. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. 2004. Pp. xvii + 382. $35.00. ISBN 0-8131 -2325-9. (2005) (0)
- The Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany: A Survey of the Political, Social, Economic and Intellectual History of Germany during the Period from 1914 to 1945 (1983) (0)
- Soldiers and Steam: Railways and the Military in Prussia, 1832 to 1848 (1972) (0)
- Contributors to this Issue (2002) (0)
- Of Decisive Battles and Intellectual Fashions: Sir Edward Creasy Revisited (1988) (0)
- The military and the revolutionary state (2012) (0)
- Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics (1998) (0)
- Review Essay: War Remains a Chameleon@@@Military Effectiveness. Vol. 1, The First World War; Vol II, The Interwar Years; Vol. III, The Second World War. (1990) (0)
- Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge up San Juan Hill . By Mark Lee Gardner (2017) (0)
- David A. Charters, Marc Milner, and J. Brent Wilson, Military History and the Military Profession (1993) (0)
- “A Tidal Wave of Degeneracy”: National Socialism and Cultural Politics in Nürnberg, 1923–33 (1984) (0)
- The non-western world responds to imperialism, 1850–1914 (2012) (0)
- Delbrueck's Modern Military History . By Hans Delbrueck. Edited and translated by Arden Bucholz. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1997. Pp. xv + 244. $40.00. ISBN 0-8032-1698-X. (2001) (0)
- Reviews of Books (2003) (0)
- Russian Hussar: A Story of the Imperial Cavalry, 1911-1920 (1993) (0)
- Warfare in the Western World, Vol. 1, Military Operations from 1600-1871; Vol. 2, Military Operations since 1871 (1998) (0)
- A Flawed Genius. Field-Marshal Walter Model. A Critical Biography, by Marcel Stein (2011) (0)
- Motivation in War: The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe. By Ilya Berkovich.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+280. $89.99 (cloth); $29.99 (paper). (2018) (0)
- Railroads and rifles : the influence of technological development of German military thought and practice, 1815-1866 (1970) (0)
- Thinking about Military Revolution (2003) (0)
- White Flags of Surrender (1974) (0)
- Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War. By Thomas Weber. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2010. Pp. 464. Cloth $34.95. ISBN 978-0199233205. Paper $19.95. ISBN 978-0199226382. (2013) (0)
- Researching World War I (2003) (0)
- The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture . By Ronald Smelser and Edward J. Davies II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008. Pp. xii+327. Cloth $75.00. ISBN 978-0-521-83365-3. Paper $21.99. ISBN 978-0-521-71231-6. (2009) (0)
- Considering the Unthinkable: Chemical Weapons in Modern Warfare (2008) (0)
- A World at Total War: Global Yet Not Total: The U.S. War Effort and Its Consequences (2004) (0)
- World War I Origins (2012) (0)
- :Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, 18711914 (2001) (0)
- Robert H. Keyserlingk Austria in World War II. An Anglo-American Dilemma . Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988. Pp. xix, 305. $29.95E. (1991) (0)
- Nazi Mass Murder: A Documentary History of the Use of Poison Gas (1995) (0)
- Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914–1938 by Brian E. Crim (review) (2015) (0)
- Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy (review) (2008) (0)
- 6The Jena Campaign: Apogee and Perihelion (2016) (0)
- Weapons technology in the two nuclear ages (2012) (0)
- Wars of decolonization, 1945–1975 (2012) (0)
- Military occupations, 1945–1955 (2012) (0)
- Book Review (2003) (0)
- Military doctrine and planning in the interwar era (2012) (0)
- Literature Review--German Scholarship (1979) (0)
- Reducing Operational Costs at the Csa (2005) (0)
- Belonging and Genocide: Hitler's Community, 1918–1945, Thomas Kühne (New Haven:Yale University Press, 2010), vii + 216 pp., cloth, $40.00, e-book, $29.27 (2012) (0)
- Book Reviews : Moltke on the Art of War. Edited by Daniel J. Hughes. Translated by Harry Bell and Daniel J. Hughes. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1993. XI + 275 pp. US$35.00 ISBN 0 89141 484 3 (1994) (0)
- The Great War: An Imperial History (review) (2005) (0)
- Book Review: Eisenhower and the German POWs: Facts against Falsehood (1995) (0)
- German Armies, 1648-1806 (1999) (0)
- Military History in Germany, 1982-1983: An Overview of Periodical Literature (1981) (0)
- Doctoral Dissertations in Military History (2004) (0)
- Expanding Nontraditional Opportunities for Military Historians (2009) (0)
- Prussia’s military legacy in Empire, Republic and Reich, 1871–1945 (2014) (0)
- A River of Blood and Time: Images of Jewish-Gentile Relations in Contemporary Pulp Culture (1977) (0)
- A Grand Illusion? German Reserves, 1815–1914 (2012) (0)
- Book Review: Preparing for Weltpolitik. German Sea Power before the Tirpitz Era (1999) (0)
- The German War Artists. (1981) (0)
- Armies, navies, air forces (2015) (0)
- Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein. By Niall Barr. (Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook, 2005. Pp. xliii, 531. $35.00.) (2006) (0)
- Military History in Germany, 1987-88: An Overview of Periodical Literature (1989) (0)
- The era of American hegemony, 1989–2005 (2012) (0)
- A Bavarian Prince and a Soldier of Germany (2017) (0)
- Introduction to volume IV (2012) (0)
- The Early Modern World (2007) (0)
- Colliding Worlds and the Future of History (2002) (0)
- Nazi Germany 1933–1945: Faith and Annihilation: Dülffer, Jost: Trans. Dean Scott McMurray New York: St. Martin's Press, 242 pp., Publication Date: April 1996 (1997) (0)
- Chemical Warfare.@@@The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War. (1990) (0)
- Conventional war, 1945–1990 (2012) (0)
- Weapons Technology and the Military in Metternich's Germany: A Study in Stagnation? (2008) (0)
- War in the Age of Technology: Myriad Faces of Modern Armed Conflict (review) (2002) (0)
- The Colditz Myth: The Real Story of POW Life in Nazi Germany. By S. P. Mackenzie. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv+446. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-19-920307-9. (2007) (0)
- Doctoral Dissertations in Military History (2003) (0)
- Military History in Germany, 1980-82: Overview of Periodical Literature (1983) (0)
- German Military History, 1648-1982: A Critical Bibliography. (1984) (0)
- On the Road to Modern War | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1) (2020) (0)
- The Socialism of Fools: George Ritter von Schonerer and Austrian Pan-Germanism (1976) (0)
- Neither T-Group nor Seminar (1977) (0)
- The Battle for Leningrad, 1941-1944. By David M. Glantz. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xxii, 660 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. $39.95, hard bound. (2004) (0)
- Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950, by Odd Arme WestadDecisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950, by Odd Arme Westad. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. viii, 413 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). (2005) (0)
- The Bundeswehr of the Federal Republic of Germany (2020) (0)
- robert m. citino. The Evolution of Blitzkrieg Tactics: Germany Defends Itself against Poland, 1918–1933. (Contributions in Military Studies, number 61.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 1987. Pp. xiv, 209. $32.95 (1990) (0)
- Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899-1940 (review) (2003) (0)
- OF THE PSEUDOINVERSE (2016) (0)
- African Americans in the Armed Forces: A Bibliographic Essay. (1996) (0)
- Book Reviews : Wilhelm II and the Germans. A Study in Leadership. By Thomas A. Kohut. Oxford University Press. 1992. ix + 331 pp. 30.00 (1993) (0)
- The Anglo-Prussian alliance and the Seven Years War (2016) (0)
- “Die Schwarzen waren unsere Freunde”: Deutsche Kriegsgefangene in der amerikanischen Gesellschaft, 1942–1946 (“The blacks were our friends”: German prisoners of war in American society, 1942–1946). By Matthias Reiß. (Paderborn, Ger.: Schöningh, 2002. 371 pp. 40.90, isbn 3-506-74479-8.) In German. (2003) (0)
- Fallen Elites: The Military Other in Post-Unification Germany (2012) (0)
- Doctoral Dissertations in Military History (2008) (0)
- Sex and Society in Nazi Germany: Bleuel, Hans Peter (ed. by Heinrich Fraenkel; translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn): New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., 272 pp., Publication Date: November 19, 1973 (1974) (0)
- Editorial (2006) (0)
- Goltz and Bernhardi: The institutionalization of originality in the imperial German army (1987) (0)
- Armageddon in Stalingrad, September-November 1942, vol. 2, The Stalingrad Trilogy. By David M Glantz , with Jonathan M House. Modern War Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xxiv, 896 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. $39.95, hard bound. (2011) (0)
- GIs in Germany: The War That Was Never Fought (2013) (0)
- Rehearsals: The German Army in Belgium, August 1914. By Jeff Lipkes. (Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2007. Pp. 815. $55.95.) (2010) (0)
- Biographical Dictionary of World War I. (1984) (0)
- The Universal Classroom. (1995) (0)
- Overview of Periodical Literature, 1978-79: Military History in Germany (1980) (0)
- War-making and restraint by law (2012) (0)
- charles edward white. The Enlightened Soldier: Scharnhorst and the militärische Gesellschaft in Berlin, 1801–1805. New York: Praeger. 1989. Pp. xv, 244. $42.95 (1990) (0)
- Army, State, and Society in Germany, 1871-1914: An Interpretation* (2019) (0)
- Stopping the Panzers: The Untold Story of D-Day by Marc Milner (review) (2016) (0)
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