Alexander Watson (historiker)
Alexander Watson (født 12. juli 1979 er en britisk historiker, forfatter og professor. Han har utgitt to bøker, som omhandler Storbritannia og Sentral-Europa under første verdenskrig. Hans siste bok, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918, har vunnet flere bokpriser. Watson er professor ved Goldsmiths, University of London.
| Alexander Watson | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Født | 12. juli 1979 (45 år) | ||
| Beskjeftigelse | Militærhistoriker | ||
| Utdannet ved | Exeter College Balliol College | ||
| Nasjonalitet | Storbritannia | ||
Verk
rediger- Bøker
- «Mutinies and Military Morale», bidrag til The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War, 2014, ISBN 978-0199663385
- «Morale», bidrag til The Cambridge History of the First World War. Vol II. The State, 2014, ISBN 978-0521766531
- Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War (1914–1918), 2014, ISBN 978-1846142215
- «Indecisive Victory? German and British Soldiers in the Armistice, 11 November 1918», bidrag til The Silent Morning: Memory, Culture, and the Armistice, November 1918, 2013, ISBN 978-0719090028
- «Voluntary Enlistment in the Great War: a European Phenomenon», bidrag til War Volunteering in Modern Times. From the French Revolution to the Second Great War, 2011, ISBN 978-0230228054
- Enduring the Great War. Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British armies, 1914–1918, 2008, ISBN 978-0521881012
- Artikler
- «Unheard of Brutality»: Russian Atrocities against Civilians in East Prussia, 1914–1915, The Journal of Modern History, 2014, ISSN 0022-2801
- «Fighting for Another Fatherland: the Polish Minority in the German Army, 1914–1918», The English Historical Review, 2011, ISSN 0013-8266
- «Bereaved and Aggrieved: Combat Motivation and the Ideology of Sacrifice in the First World War», Historical Research, 2010, ISSN 1468-2281
- «Culture and Combat in the Western World, 1900–1945», The Historical Journal, 2008, ISSN 0018-246X
- «Junior Officership in the German Army during the Great War, 1914–1918», War in History, 2006
- «Self-Deception and Survival: Mental Coping Strategies on the Western Front, 1914–1918», Journal of Contemporary History, 2006
- «For Kaiser and Reich": the Identity and Fate of the German Volunteers, 1914–1918», War in History, 2005