| 词条 | Samuel W. Mitcham |
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| name = Samuel W. Mitcham | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = PhD | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 1949 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Author | language = English | nationality = American | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = Non-fiction Military history | notablework = | awards = | years_active = | website = | portaldisp = }} Samuel W. Mitcham is an American writer of military history who specializes in the German war effort during World War II. He is the author of more than 40 books. Education and careerMitcham was born in Mer Rouge, Louisiana, in 1949. He was a U.S. Army helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. He studied journalism at Northeast Louisiana University and science at the North Carolina State. Mitcham earned his Ph.D. in geography in 1986 from University of Tennessee. He was an assistant professor of earth sciences at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Mitcham was consulted by CBS, BBC, and the History Channel.[1][2] Non-fiction authorMitcham is the author of more than 40 books on military history, including orders of battle, operational studies and prosopography, focusing on the careers of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS figures. In Defenders of Fortress Europe, Mitcham utilized over 200 previously unreleased personnel files to build a picture of the German command class facing the Allied invasion. He focuses on personal and political differences among the officer class, which ultimately contributed to the defeat of the German forces in Normandy. Mitcham also explores their motivations, often highly self-serving. He shows that the in-fighting took on political as well as class dimensions, as illustrated by the power struggle between Gerd von Rundstedt, the nominal commander in the West, and Erwin Rommel, the de-facto leader in Normandy.[3] Mitcham's work on the Eastern Front, the 2001 The German Defeat in the East, 1944-1945 utilises outdated secondary sources and provides a single-sided German perspective. The historian Lee Baker describes the book as "not about the defeat of Germany on the eastern front by the Red Army, but rather a tale of German heroism and bungled orders from German command structures". He further characterises the book as "very old-fashioned" and relying "solely upon German sources or obsolete interpretations from the Cold War era".[4] Selected works
References1. ^[https://books.google.com/books/about/Richard_Taylor_and_the_Red_River_Campaig.html?id=Ac3ijwEACAAJ Author profile] {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Mitcham, Samuel W.}}2. ^[https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780275968564 Samuel L. Mitcham], Publishers Weekly 3. ^Bradley Nichols (February 2011): [https://networks.h-net.org/node/35008/reviews/46228/nichols-mitcham-defenders-fortress-europe-untold-story-german-officers Nichols on Mitcham, 'Defenders of Fortress Europe: The Untold Story of the German Officers during the Allied Invasion'], H-Net 4. ^Baker, Lee. "Reviews: The German Defeat in the East, 1944-1945, by Samuel W. Mitcham". Journal of Slavic Military Studies. Jul-Sep 2008, Vol. 21, Issue 3, pp. 593-594. DOI: 10.1080/13518040802313985. (AN: 33998522) 5 : 1949 births|Living people|United States Army personnel|20th-century American non-fiction writers|21st-century American non-fiction writers |
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