Writing of Official Military History

ROBIN HIGHAM is Professor Emeritus of Military History at Kansas State University. He is the author of more than 140 articles and 14 monographs and editor of some 30 bibliographical volumes. He has also been editor of the periodicals Military Affairs and Aerospace Historian and is currently editor of the Journal of the West.

• Introduction by Robin Higham Objectives and Methodology of Military Historiography by the Working Group "Objectives and Methodology of Military Historiography" The Institute of Military History of the German Democratic Republic: Objectives and Results by Paul Heider Of Aphorisms, Lessons, and Paradigms: Comparing the British and German Official Histories of the Russo-Japanese War by Gary P. Cox John Fortescue, James Edmonds, and the History of the Great War: A Case of Ritual Murder by John Hussey The Making of Air History, by the Library of Congress; Italian Service Histories and Fascist Italy's War Effort by James J. Sadkovich Association with Franklin D. Roosevelt a Memoir by Dudley W. Knox When Clio Marries Mars: The Combat Historian by Lt. Col. F.D.G. Williams and Robert K. Wright "The Campaign in Norwa" and Official Histories--A Demi-Centenary Review by Robin Higham Appendix: Medical Histories of War Index