- John Erickson (historian)
John R. Erickson (b. April 17,1929
South Shields , Eng. – d. Feb. 10, 2002Edinburgh , Scot.) [cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-john-erickson-729741.html|title=Professor John Erickson - Obituary|last=Dalyell|first=Tam|date=February 12, 2002|work=The Independent|accessdate=2008-05-15] , was a British historian who wrote extensively on theSecond World War , with books onOperation Barbarossa and theBattle of Stalingrad .He gave a considerable amount of on-screen opinion to the
Battlefield (documentary series) , in programs dealing with the Eastern Front and Armoured Warfare and appeared in subsequent documentaries.He was
Professor Emeritus andHonorary Fellow in Defence Studies at theUniversity of Edinburgh . His wife, Ljubica Erickson, spent many years with her husband researching Russian military affairs, in particular the Soviet Army and the Soviet-German war.Publications
*The Soviet High Command 1918-1941:A Military-Political History 1918-1941, St Martin's Press (Macmillan), London, 1962
*Panslavism , Routledge & Kegan Paul, for The Historical Association, London, 1964
*The Military-Technical Revolution, Praeger, New York, 1966 (Revised and updated papers from a symposium held at the Institute for the Study of the USSR, Munich, Oct. 1964)
*The Road ToStalingrad ,Stalin 's War With Germany Volume 1, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York 1975 ISBN 0060111410
*Soviet Military Power,Royal United Services Institution , London, 1976?
*Soviet Military Power and Performance, Palgrave Macmillan Press, London, 1979 ISBN 0333220811
*The Road To Stalingrad, Stalin's War With Germany Volume 1, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 1983
*The Road to Berlin. Stalin's War with Germany Volume 2, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1983
*TheSoviet Ground Forces : An Operational Assessment, Westview Printing, ISBN 0891587969
*Deep battle: The brainchild of Marshal Tukhachevski byRichard Simpkin in association with John Erickson, Brasseys's, 1987
*The Russian Front, a four part narrated televised series, Cromwell Films, 1998
*Barbarossa: The Axis and the Allies, Erickson, John and Dilks, David, eds.,Edinburgh University Press, 1994 (contributors include Dmitri Volkogonov, Harry Hinsley, Klaus-Jurgen Muller, Klaus Reinhardt)
*Hitler Versus Stalin: TheSecond World War on the Eastern Front in Photographs, Carlton Publishing Group, 2004 ISBN 1844427277References
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