Professor of History
Department of History
Goldsmiths, University of London
'Ring of Steel. Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918' (London: Allen Lane, 2014) [published in the US by Basic Books] 'Enduring the Great War. Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
'“Unheard of Brutality”: Russian Atrocities against Civilians in East Prussia, 1914-1915', The Journal of Modern History. Vol. 86, No. 4 (Dec. 2014), 780-825 'Fighting for Another Fatherland: the Polish Minority in the German Army, 1914-1918', The English Historical Review. Vol. 126, No. 552 (October 2011), 1137-66 'Bereaved and Aggrieved: Combat Motivation and the Ideology of Sacrifice in the First World War', Historical Research. Vol. 83, No. 219 (Feb. 2010), 146-64 (coauthored with Dr. Patrick Porter) 'Stabbed at the Front', History Today. Vol. 58, No. 11 (Nov. 2008), 21-7 'Culture and Combat in the Western World, 1900-1945', The Historical Journal. Vol. 51, No. 2 (June 2008), 529-46 (Historiographical Review) 'Junior Officership in the German Army during the Great War, 1914-1918', War in History. Vol. 14, No. 4 (Nov. 2007), 429-53 'Self-deception and Survival: Mental Coping Strategies on the Western Front, 1914-1918', Journal of Contemporary History. Vol. 41, No. 2 (Apr. 2006), 247-68 '“For Kaiser and Reich”: the Identity and Fate of the German Volunteers, 1914-1918', War in History. Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan. 2005), 44-74
Soldaten, ihre Kampfmotivationen und Durchhaltevermögen im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert; insbesonders im Ersten Weltkrieg.