TOC – Journal of Military History, Vol. 75, No. 3

The latest edition has just come through the door. If you are not a member of the society you should consider it as it is pre-eminent professional organisation for practicing military historians. The 2011 George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History Gerhard L. Weinberg, ‘Some Myths of World War II‘ The talk engages some myths [...]

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War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham

Next weeks War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham is as follows: Dr Dan Branch (University of Warwick) ‘Who killed J.M.? Assassination, Power and Dissent in post-colonial Kenya’ The event will be on 24 May. The Seminar meets on TUESDAYS at 5.30 p.m. in Lecture Room 3, 1st Floor, Arts Building.

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The Utility of Counterfactual History

Counterfactual history can be split into two distinct types of genre, both of which have a different type of audience due to their nature. The first genre of counterfactual history is that of the alternate history. This type of pseudo-historical study, more akin to historical fiction than serious scholarly study, tends to take a simple [...]

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Axioms make Idioms of us All

I can’t think of two more misleading axioms to the common understanding of history than: the past is told by those who win and history repeats itself . Like all axioms/adages/proverbs (whatever you wish to call them) they’re rooted in reality, the problem is this reality is interpreted on a narrow, perhaps even archaic, view [...]

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