The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World (67 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Hamburg, Germany, on 25 September 1941, HOLGER H. HERWIG holds a dual position at the University of Calgary as professor of history and as Canada research chair in the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. He received his BA (1965) from the University of British Columbia and his MA (1967) and PhD (1971) from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Herwig taught at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1971 until 1989. He served as head of the Department of History at Calgary from 1991 until 1996.

Dr. Herwig has published more than a dozen scholarly books, some of which have been translated into Chinese, Czech, German, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish, including the prizewinning
The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–1918
and
The Origins of World War I
, with Richard Hamilton.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Herwig, Holger H.
The Marne, 1914: the opening of World War I and the battle that changed the world / Holger H. Herwig.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-58836-909-3
1. Marne, first battle of the, France, 1914. I. Title
D543.M3H477 2009      940.4′21—dc22    2009005687

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