Dennis Edwin Showalter (February 12, 1942 – December 30, 2019) was a professor emeritus of history at

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. Showalter specialized in German military history. He was president of the American

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from 1997 to 2001. In addition, Showalter was an advising fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the

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Career

Showalter began teaching at Colorado College in 1969. Showalter also previously taught at the

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, the

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, and the

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.Dennis Showalter
Potomac Books, Inc. He wrote extensively on the wars of

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, the German Wars of Unification,

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, and

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Awards and honors

*1992 Paul Birdsall Prize for best new book given by the

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, for ''Tannenberg'' *2005

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for lifetime achievement given by the

*2018

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'', Vol. 44, No. 3, September 1972 *''Railroads and Rifles: Soldiers, Technology, and the Unification of Germany''. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon/Shoe String, 1975. *''Tannenberg: Clash of Empires, 1914''. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon, 1991. . Repr. Washington: Brassey's, 2004. *''The Wars of Frederick the Great''. London/New York: Longman, 1996. *''The Wars of German Unification''. London: Arnold, 2004. *''Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism''. Military Profiles. Washington: Potomac, 2005. (with William J. Astore) *''Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century''. New York: Berkley Caliber, 2005. *''Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II''. Random House, 2013.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Showalter, Dennis 1942 births 2019 deaths American military historians College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University alumni Colorado College faculty Historians of Germany University of Minnesota alumni