Welcome to the Military History Center at the University of North Texas. Our goal is to build one of the premier military history programs in the world. We are hiring great military historians, who teach and write well. We will use this center to pull together our own faculty and our advisory fellows -- heavyweights like Niall Ferguson, Holger Herwig, and Jeremy Black -- and to attract speakers and conferences like our hugely successful Alfred Hurley Military History Seminar, which has been an annual event in North Texas for twenty-five years. Speakers have included Michael Howard, Martin Blumenson, Dennis Showalter, David Glantz, Carlo D'Este, Allan Millett, and Gerhard Weinberg. At the UNT Military History Center we are introducing a PhD. in military history. Here we study, analyze and discuss the history and future of warfare in every era and culture. Join us in North Texas, or right here on the web.
Featured Events
Pulitzer prize winning author and historian Rick Atkinson will be on campus Friday, November 16, 2007, as part of his national book tour to launch The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-44.
Rick will speak for an hour and then field questions and sign copies of his book. The event is free and open to the public and will be held in the Eagle Student Service Center (ESSC) Room 255 at 6:30 p.m. on 11/16/07.
Advance reviews of the book have already acclaimed it as thrilling and definitive. "The battles in Sicily and Italy developed the combat effectiveness and the emotional hardness of a U.S. Army increasingly constrained to bear the brunt of the Western allies' war effort, he argues.
Demanding terrain, harsh climate and a formidable opponent confirmed the lesson of North Africa: the only way home was through the Germans: kill or be killed. Atkinson is pitilessly accurate demonstrating the errors and misjudgments of senior officers, Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Gen. Mark Clark and their subordinates commanding corps and divisions.
The price was paid in blood by the men at the sharp end: British and French, Indians and North Africans-above all, Americans. The Mediterranean campaign is frequently dismissed by soldiers and scholars as a distraction from the essential objective of invading northern Europe. Atkinson makes a convincing case that it played a decisive role in breaking German power, forcing the Wehrmacht onto a defensive it could never abandon."
Welcome to the Military History Center at the University of North Texas. Our goal is to build one of the premier military history programs in the world. We are hiring great military historians, who teach and write well. We will use this center to pull together our own faculty and our advisory fellows -- heavyweights like Niall Ferguson, Holger Herwig, and Jeremy Black -- and to attract speakers and conferences like our hugely successful Alfred Hurley Military History Seminar, which has been an annual event in North Texas for twenty-five years. Speakers have included Michael Howard, Martin Blumenson, Dennis Showalter, David Glantz, Carlo D'Este, Allan Millett, and Gerhard Weinberg. At the UNT Military History Center we are introducing a PhD. in military history. Here we study, analyze and discuss the history and future of warfare in every era and culture. Join us in North Texas, or right here on the web.
Pulitzer prize winning author and historian Rick Atkinson will be on campus Friday, November 16, 2007, as part of his national book tour to launch The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-44.