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The study of military history in universities remains seriously underdeveloped. Indeed, lack of interest in and disdain for military history probably constitute one of the strangest prejudices of the profession. [4] [5] In recent decades University level courses in military history remain popular; often they use films to humanize the combat ...
World War I was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, resulting in an estimated 10 million military dead and more than 20 million wounded, plus some 10 million civilian dead from causes including genocide. The movement of large numbers of people was a major factor in the deadly Spanish flu pandemic.
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Martin C. Windrow (born 1944) is a British historian, editor and author of several hundred [1] books, articles and monographs, particularly those on organizational or physical details of military history, and the history of the post-war French Foreign Legion.
Richard Holmes (1946–2011) – British military history; Alistair Horne (1925–2017) – British historian of French military history; Michael Howard (1922–2019) – modern military history; John Keegan (1934–2012, English) – specialised in 20th-century wars; Anthony Kemp (1939–2018) – English historian of history of World War II
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Following American entry into World War II in December 1941, the United States Army created the "Center of Military History", whose role was to "gather historically significant data and materials" for the benefit of future historians, an organisation that still exists. [13]
Dalessandro is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army and the Deputy Secretary [1] of the American Battle Monuments Commission He is former Director of the United States Army Center of Military History at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. Dalessandro frequently leads battlefield tours to sites in the United States, France and Italy.