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Holger Herwig's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Dr. Holger H. Herwig is a German-born Canadian historian and professor. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including the award-winning, The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918 and The Origins of World War I, written with Richard F. Hamilton. His research focuses on World War I and German military and political history. Dr. Herwig holds a dual position at the University of Calgary as Professor of History and as Canada Research Chair in the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies.

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The First World War : Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918 (1997) (74)
History of the art of war (1990) (67)
Clio Deceived: Patriotic Self-Censorship in Germany after the Great War (1987) (57)
Luxury Fleet: The Imperial German Navy, 1888-1918 (1980) (50)
Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War (1992) (40)
Politics of frustration: The United States in German naval planning, 1889-1941 (1976) (28)
The Origins of World War I (2003) (26)
The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World (2009) (25)
World History of Warfare (2002) (23)
The Grand Illusion: The Prussianization of the Chilean Army (1999) (19)
The Origins of World War I: Why Did It Happen? (2003) (19)
Total Rhetoric, Limited War: Germany's U-Boat Campaign 1917-1918 (1998) (18)
Germany and the "Short-War" Illusion: Toward a New Interpretation? (2002) (17)
War Memory and Popular Culture: Essays on Modes of Remembrance and Commemoration (2009) (17)
The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front and Emergence of Modern Warfare 1900-1918 (1989) (17)
The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918 (1997) (17)
Military Effectiveness: The Dynamics of Necessity: German Military Policy during the First World War (2010) (16)
Decisions for War, 1914-1917 (2004) (16)
The Failure of German Sea Power, 1914–1945: Mahan, Tirpitz, and Raeder Reconsidered (1988) (14)
Tannenberg: Clash of Empires (1991) (14)
Military Innovation in the Interwar Period: Innovation ignored: The submarine problem – Germany, Britain, and the United States, 1919–1939 (1996) (13)
Admirals versus Generals: The War Aims of the Imperial German Navy, 1914–1918 (1972) (12)
Great War , Total War COMBAT AND MOBILIZATION ON THE WESTERN FRONT , 1914 – 1918 (2000) (12)
The German Reaction to the Dreadnought Revolution (1991) (12)
The Outbreak of World War I : causes and responsibilities (1991) (12)
War Planning 1914 (2009) (10)
The First World War (1997) (8)
The German naval officer corps : a social and political history, 1890-1918 (1975) (8)
Hitler's U-boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942 (2000) (7)
The German Naval Officer Corps (1973) (6)
Germany's vision of empire in Venezuela, 1871-1914 (1988) (6)
The Outbreak of World War I (1996) (6)
Albert Speer: The End of a Myth. (1987) (6)
Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the HabsburgOfficer Corps, 1848-1918 (1992) (5)
Disjointed Allies: Coalition Warfare in Berlin and Vienna, 1914 (1990) (5)
Naval Operations Plans between Germany and the United States of America 1898-1913 A Study of Strategic Planning in the Age of Imperialism (1970) (5)
The Failure of Imperial Germany's Undersea Offensive Against World Shipping, February 1917–October 1918 (1971) (5)
The dynamics of military revolution 1300—2050: The battlefleet revolution, 1885–1914 (2001) (4)
The Demon of Geopolitics: How Karl Haushofer "Educated" Hitler and Hess (2016) (4)
Naval Policy between the Wars, Vol. II: The Period of Reluctant Rearmament, 1930-1939 Stephen Roskill (1979) (3)
The Origins of World War I: World Wars: Definition and Causes (2003) (3)
Germany and the Battle of the Atlantic (2004) (3)
Hammer or anvil (1993) (3)
The Origins of World War I: Germany (2003) (3)
Tunes of Glory at the Twilight Stage: The Bad Homburg Crown Council and the Evolution of German Statecraft, 1917/1918 (1983) (3)
The Pity of War. By Niall Ferguson. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xliii+563. $30.00. (2000) (3)
By Order of the Kaiser: Otto von Diederichs and the Rise of the Imperial German Navy, 1865–1902. By Terrell D. Gottschall. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. viii+337. $36.95. (2005) (3)
Prelude to Weltblitzkrieg: Germany's Naval Policy toward the United States of America, 1939-41 (1971) (3)
German military history, 1648-1982 : a critical bibliography (1984) (3)
The First German Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils and the Problem of Military Reforms (1968) (2)
From Kaiser to Führer: The Political Road of a German Admiral, 1923-33 (1974) (2)
Decisions for War, 1914–1917: Frontmatter (2004) (2)
Building the Kaiser's Navy: The Imperial Naval Office and German, Industry in the von Tirpitz Era, 1890-1919 (1993) (2)
The destruction of the Bismarck (2001) (2)
World War I : the definitive encyclopedia and document collection (2014) (2)
An Introduction to Military Archives in West Germany (1972) (2)
Great War, Total War: Total Rhetoric, Limited War (2000) (2)
"Luxury" Fleet: The Imperial German Navy, 1888-1918 (1981) (2)
From tirpitz plan to schlieffen plan: Some observations on German military planning (1986) (2)
War in the West, 1914–16 (2010) (2)
One Christmas in Washington: Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (2005) (2)
Long Night of the Tankers: Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil (2014) (2)
Decisions for War, 1914–1917: General map of Europe: June 1914 (2004) (1)
On the Origins of the Catastrophe (2001) (1)
The Berlin‐Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power. By Sean Mcmeekin. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. xv, 461. $29.95.) (2012) (1)
Naval Warfare in the Twentieth Century 1900-1945. Essays in Honour of Arthur Marder, edited by Gerald Jordan (1978) (1)
Decisions for War, 1914–1917: Japan; The Ottoman Empire (2004) (1)
Decisions for War, 1914–1917: On the Origins of the Catastrophe (2004) (1)
In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser, by Paul Van PulIn Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser, by Paul Van Pul. Bamsley, South Yorkshire, Pen and Sword Military, 2006. xxii, 266 pp. 19.99 (cloth). (2007) (1)
“Military Doomsday Machine”? The Decisions for War 1914 (2011) (1)
Feudalization of the Bourgeoisie: The Role of the Nobility in the German Naval Officer Corps 1890–1918 (1976) (1)
German Policy in the Eastern Baltic Sea in 1918: Expansion or Anti-Bolshevik Crusade? (1973) (1)
Lossberg's War: The World War I Memoirs of a German Chief of Staff (2017) (1)
The Destruction of the Bismarck / the Loss of the Bismarck: An Avoidable Disaster (2002) (1)
Military Strategy in War and Peace: Some Conclusions (2010) (1)
The Battle of the Denmark Strait: A Critical Analysis of the Bismarck's Singular Triumph (2015) (1)
Through the Looking Glass: German Strategic Planning Before 1914 (2015) (1)
Chapter VI. Venezuela and President James Monroe's "Insolent Dogma" (1986) (0)
Review: Security: The Leverage of Sea Power (1993) (0)
Book Review: The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire (2007) (0)
Europe (1988) (0)
Chapter I. From Coffee to Railroads: German Merchants and Investments (1986) (0)
Chapter IV. The Military Advisors' Game (1986) (0)
Reviews of Books:Imperialism at Sea: Naval Strategic Thought, the Ideology of Sea Power and the Tirpitz Plan, 1875-1914 Rolf Hobson (2003) (0)
The Pathology of War Plans: The Lessons of 1914 (2005) (0)
Back Matter (1990) (0)
The Nazi Revolution (1997) (0)
The Naval Policy of Austria-Hungary, 1867–1918: Navalism, Industrial Development, and the Politics of Dualism. By Lawrence Sondhaus. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press. 1994. Pp. xv + 441. $39.95. ISBN 1-55753-034-3. (1994) (0)
War Planning 1914: Conclusions (2009) (0)
Origins and Development of West German Military Thought: Vol. I, 1949-1966 (1987) (0)
Bismark and the Development of Germany, Vol. I: The Period of Unification, 1815-1871; Vol. II: The Period of Consolidation, 1871-1880; Vol. III: The Period of Fortification, 1880-1898 (1991) (0)
Alfred von Tirpitz and German Right-Wing Politics, 1914—1930 . By Raffael Scheck. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press (Studies in Central European Histories). 1998. Pp. xvii + 261. $70.00. ISBN 0-391-04043-X. (1999) (0)
The Rebirth of the Habsburg Army: Friedrich Beck and the Rise of the General Staff. By Scott W. Lackey. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press. Contributions in Military Studies, 161. 1995. Pp. xiii + 253. £59.95. ISBN 0-313-29361-9. (1997) (0)
Conclusion: What Price Imperialism? (1986) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2020) (0)
Chapter 10. Of Men and Myths The Use and Abuse of History and the Great War (2017) (0)
The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany, by Jeffrey Verhey (2001) (0)
REVIEWS (2004) (0)
Chapter VII. Parting of the Ways: Germany, Great Britain, And Venezuela Around 1900 (1986) (0)
Reviews of Books (2002) (0)
REVIEWS (2004) (0)
ivo nikolai lambi. The Navy and German Power Politics, 1862–1914. Boston: Allen and Unwin. 1984. Pp. xiii, 449. $37.50 (1985) (0)
Biographical dictionary of World War I (1982) (0)
The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II. By Evan Mawdsley. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. xlii+558. $32.50. (2021) (0)
Reviews of Books (2000) (0)
Book Review: The German Offensives of 1918 (2003) (0)
Reviews of Books (2000) (0)
Chapter V. Germany, Venezuela, and the Panama Canal: The Elusive Quest for Agerman Naval Base in South America (1986) (0)
'Luxury' Fleet: (RLE The First World War) : The Imperial German Navy 1888-1918 (2014) (0)
Decisions for War, 1914–1917: Austria-Hungary (2004) (0)
Beginning five- volume history of the Royal Navy : From the Dreadnought to (2016) (0)
The Third Reich, 1933-1939: A Historical Bibliography. (1985) (0)
Miscalculated Risks: The German Declaration of War against the United States, 1917 and 1941 (1986) (0)
Book Review: Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War: Killing, Dying, Surviving Benjamin Ziemann (2019) (0)
Reviews of Books (1977) (0)
The Inverted Mirror: Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 1889–1914. By Michael E. Nolan. (New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, 2005. Pp. 141. $50.00.) (2007) (0)
Chapter II. The German Community: Deutschtum as a Trojan Horse? (1986) (0)
The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds. By Mark Cornwall. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xvi, 488 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. $69.95, hard bound. (2001) (0)
REVIEWS (2000) (0)
Book Review: German Capital Ships and Raiders in World War II. Volume I: From Graf Spee to Bismarck, 1939–1941; Volume II: From Scharnhorst to Tirpitz, 1942–1944 (2002) (0)
Written in Blood: The Battles for Fortress Przemyśl in WWI. By Graydon A. Tunstall. Twentieth-Century Battles. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. xi, 386 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Plates. $45.00, hard bound. (2017) (0)
Strachan and the Great War: A Lifelong Quest (2020) (0)
Rolf Hobson. Imperialism at Sea: Naval Strategic Thought, the Ideology of Sea Power and the Tirpitz Plan, 1875–1914. (Studies in Central European Histories.) Boston: Brill. 2002. Pp. x, 358 (2003) (0)
Editors' Note (2011) (0)
Moltke, Schlieffen, and Prussian War Planning. (1992) (0)
Decisions for War, 1914–1917: Germany (2004) (0)
REVIEWS (2006) (0)
Reviews of Books (1982) (0)
Decisions for War, 1914–1917: European Wars: 1815–1914 (2004) (0)
James Cameron's Expedition Bismarck: A Participant's Perspective (2005) (0)
Decisions for War, 1914–1917: The Great War: A Review of the Explanations (2004) (0)
War Planning 1914: Appendix: Suggested Reading (2009) (0)
Europe (1989) (0)
The Forgotten Campaign: Alsace-Lorraine August 1914 (2011) (0)
Lusitania: The Cultural History of a Catastrophe by Willi Jasper (review) (2018) (0)
Biographical Dictionary of World War I. (1984) (0)
“The Battle-Fortune of Marshal Hindenburg is not Bound up with the Possession of a Hill”: The Germans and Vimy Ridge, April 1917 (2016) (0)
3. Imperial Germany (1986) (0)
Forging the King's Sword. Military Education between Tradition and Modernization: The Case of the Royal Prussian Cadet Corps (1995) (0)
Jutland: Acrimony to Resolution (2016) (0)
Book Review: The Army, Politics and Society in Germany,1933-1945: Studies in the Army's Relation to Nazism. (1989) (0)
Eric Grove (intro.), German Capital Ships and Raiders in World War II. Volume I: From Graf Spee to Bismarck, 1939-1941; Volume II: From Scharnhorst to Tirpitz, 1942-1944 (2002) (0)
Germany and the Approach of War in 1914; Planning for War Against Russia and Serbia: Austro-Hungarian and German Military Strategies, 1871-1914 (1995) (0)
Moltke and the German Wars, 1864–1871 . By Arden Bucholz. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. ix + 240. $21.95. ISBN 0-333-69336-1. (2003) (0)
The White Revolutionary 1851-1898 (1988) (0)
Global Gambit: A German General Staff Assessment of Mexican Affairs, November 1913 (1985) (0)
The Image of the Soldier in German Culture, 1871-1933 (2018) (0)
Allens nur noch Seelenadel! The Prussian Nobility and the Imperial German Navy 1888-1918 (1980) (0)
The Battle of Heliogoland Bight and Distant Victory: The Battle of Jutland and the Allied Triumph in the First World War (2007) (0)
REVIEWS (2005) (0)
Dance of the furies: Europe and the outbreak of World War I (2013) (0)
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany by Martin Kitchen (review) (2014) (0)
Chapter III. The Blockade 1902-1903: Motivation and Hesitation (1986) (0)
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf: Architect of the Apocalypse . By Lawrence Sondhaus. Boston: Humanities Press. 2000. Pp. viii + 271. $70.00. ISBN 0-391-04097-9. (2002) (0)
Decisions for War, 1914–1917: Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece (2004) (0)
The Origins of World War I: Suggested Readings (2003) (0)

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