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Gerhard L. Weinberg (1) (1928–)

Author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II

For other authors named Gerhard L. Weinberg, see the disambiguation page.

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Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf (1961) — Editor, some editions — 182 copies
Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars (2011) — Contributor — 45 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1992 (1992) — Author "Why Hitler Declared War on the United States" — 17 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1998 (1998) — Author "Rearranging World War II" — 14 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1998 (1998) — Author "Strategic View: The Anglo-American Alliance in World War II" — 13 copies

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Canonical name
Weinberg, Gerhard L.
Legal name
Weinberg, Gerhard Ludwig
Birthdate
1928-01-01
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Germany (birth)
Birthplace
Hanover, Germany
Places of residence
Hanover, Germany (birth)
Education
State University of New York, Albany
University of Chicago
Occupations
historian
military historian
diplomat
Organizations
US Army
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Michigan
University of Kentucky
Awards and honors
Pritzker Military Library Literature Award (2009)
Western Association for German Studies' Halverson Prize (1972)
American Historical Society's George Louis Beer Prize (1972)
Society for Military History Samuel Eliot Morison Prize (2011)
American Academy of Arts inductee
Short biography
Professor Gerhard L. Weinberg was born in Germany. He and his parents escaped Nazi Germany and fled to England. Dr. Weinberg immigrated to the United States in 1940. He joined the US Army and served in the occupation of post-war Japan. He earned his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of Kentucky and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has become a respected expert on Nazi Germany and even though he is retired still continues to lecture at seminars and other events on World War II.

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4bonasa | 5 other reviews | Sep 4, 2019 |
WONDERFUL book by a scholar with the broadest grasp of the conflict, its origins and implications in all their political and global dimensions. Highly recommended, intelligent book. For the reader prepared to work to understand the conflict in its myriad complexities.
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stellarexplorer | 5 other reviews | Sep 24, 2008 |
4252 A World at Arms A Global History of World War II, by Gerhard L. Weinberg (read 31 Dec 2006) This is a masterful account of World War II, the best I think I have ever read. I read Robert Leckie's Delivered from Evil on Feb 4, 1989 and greatly enjoyed it, but this book is better researched and I believe is better, though with 920 pages of text, a 23 page bibliographic essay, 75 pages of notes, and 31 pages of maps, it should be. Though I lived thru the war and followed its course intently, and have read much on it since, I felt I was not merely retreading familiar ground but learning much I never knew or had forgotten. Weinberg's opinions are convincingly supported and I think he is right in most of them, maybe in all of them. Certainly he has done more research than most writers on the most important event in our lifetime.… (more)
 
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