Dr. Geoffrey Wawro is professor of history and director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas. From 2000-2005 he was Professor of Strategic Studies at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Dr. Wawro’s Ph.D is from Yale University, his B.A. Magna Cum Laude from Brown University.
He is the author of seven highly regarded books: Sons of Freedom: The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I (2018), A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire (2014), Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East (Penguin Press, 2010), The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-71 (Cambridge, 2003), Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792-1914 (Routledge, 2000), and The Austro-Prussian War: Austria’s War with Prussia and Italy in 1866 (Cambridge, 1996).
Sessions in which Geoffrey Wawro participates
Friday 3 April, 2020
Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, Beneath a Scarlet Sky tells the tale of Pino Lella, an Italian teen caught in the maelstrom of World War II. After his home is destroyed, he joins an underground group shepherding Jews to safety across the Italian Alps. Forced to enlist in the German army by his parents, he becomes a driver for Hitler’s Italian henchman—passing valuable intelligence to the Allies.Military historian Geoff Wa...
Saturday 4 April, 2020
How did Lincoln use the telegraph and railroads to help the Union win the Civil War? And how did medical inventions like mobile x-ray machines help save the lives of WWI soldiers felled by deadly new weapons of war? In this panel we’ll explore how technology and innovation shaped the most important conflicts of the last two centuries.Military historian Kris White from the American Battlefield Trust moderates this discussion with Geoff Wawro, director of the Military History Center a...
