swap_horiz Holger Herwig Alternatives

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Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke was a prominent German 19th-century historian renowned for his rigorous approach to historical researc...

German 19TH Century Archival Political

9.2 Excellent

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James McPherson

James McPherson is a prominent American historian specializing in the 20th and 21st centuries. He’s particularly renowne...

Military American 20TH Century Civil War

9.2 Excellent

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Ian Kershaw

Ian Kershaw is a prominent British historian specializing in Nazi Germany and twentieth-century warfare. His work focuse...

Contemporary British Biography Nazi Germany

9.2 Excellent

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Stephen Kotkin

Stephen Kotkin is an American historian whose research concerns Russia, the Soviet Union, authoritarianism, and geopolit...

American Contemporary Biography Soviet

9.1 Excellent

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Richard J. Evans

Richard J. Evans is a prominent British historian specializing in twentieth-century Europe and Nazi Germany. His work si...

Contemporary Historiography British Nazi Germany

9.1 Excellent

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Christopher Browning

Christopher Browning is an American historian of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. His 1992 book Ordinary Men: Reserve Pol...

American Contemporary Holocaust Nazi Germany

9.1 Excellent

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Saul Friedländer

Saul Friedländer is an Israeli-American historian whose work focuses on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and historical memo...

Contemporary Memory Holocaust Nazi Germany

9.1 Excellent

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James Scott

James C. Scott was an American political scientist and anthropologist whose work examined states, peasants, resistance,...

American Contemporary Resistance Southeast Asian

8.9 Great

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John Keegan

John Keegan (1934-2012) was a British military historian whose books examined how warfare was experienced and conducted...

Military Narrative 20TH Century British

8.6 Great

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Fritz Fischer

Fritz Fischer (1908-1999) was a German historian who specialized in modern German history and the origins of the First W...

German 20TH Century World War I War Guilt

8.6 Great

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Christopher Clark

Christopher Clark is an Australian historian who has held academic posts in Britain, including the position of Regius Pr...

German Contemporary Political World War I

8.6 Great

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Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor is a British historian known for narrative studies of twentieth-century conflict, especially the Second Wo...

Military Narrative Contemporary British

8.5 Great

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Hew Strachan

Hew Strachan is a Scottish military historian whose work focuses on war, strategy, and the First World War. His books in...

Military Contemporary British Strategic

8.5 Great

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Jay Winter

Jay Winter is an American historian whose work focuses on the social and cultural history of the First World War, includ...

American Contemporary Cultural Memory

8.4 Great

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Jürgen Kocka

Jürgen Kocka is a German social historian associated with the Bielefeld School of historical scholarship. His research u...

German Contemporary Social Comparative

8.4 Great

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Margaret MacMillan

Margaret MacMillan is a Canadian historian whose work addresses international relations, diplomacy, empire, and modern w...

Contemporary Peace Diplomatic World War I

8.4 Great

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Max Hastings

Max Hastings is a British journalist and historian known for narrative studies of modern warfare. His books include "The...

Military Narrative Contemporary British

8.3 Great

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Alf Lüdtke

Alf Lüdtke (1943-2019) was a German historian associated with the study of everyday life, labor, and state power in mode...

German Contemporary Social Labor

8.2 Great

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Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts is a British historian and biographer whose books include studies of Napoleon Bonaparte and Winston Churc...

Military Contemporary British World War Ii

7.9 Good

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Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, and author whose work examines warfare, agriculture,...

Military Classical American Contemporary

7.5 Good