LC control no. | n 82136068 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Murray, Williamson |
Variant(s) | ウィリアムソン・マーレイ |
Birth date | 1941-11-23 |
Death date | 2023-08-01 |
Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
Place of death | Fairfax (Va.) |
Field of activity | Military history |
Affiliation | Yale University Ohio State University |
Profession or occupation | Military historians |
Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
Found in | His Strategy for defeat, 1982: CIP t.p. (Williamson Murray) His The change in the European balance of power, 1938-1939, c1984: CIP t.p. (Williamson Murray) CIP inf. (b. 11/23/41 in NYC) America and the future of war, 2017: ECIP title page (Williamson Murray) data view (Williamson Murray is an American historian and author. He served in the United States Air Force, taught at a variety of universities, worked as a consultant, and has authored numerous works on history and strategic studies, the most recent being the highly acclaimed A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War) Washington post WWW site, viewed August 10, 2023 (in obituary dated August 8, 2023: Williamson Murray, a military historian and scholar whose work brought deeper insights into Germany's defeat in World War II and who advised U.S. commanders on how to plan for the battlefields of the future, died Aug. 1 in Fairfax, Va. He was 81. Williamson Murray was born Nov. 23, 1941, in Manhattan. He graduated in 1963 from Yale University with a history degree and then served in the Air Force until 1969. He returned to Yale and earned a doctorate in military and diplomatic history in 1975. In 1977, he took a position at Ohio State University as a professor of military history and related subjects. He was a senior fellow at the Naval War College from 1991 to 1992 and retired from Ohio State in 1995, taking the title of professor emeritus) |
Associated language | eng |