Projects
Allied Force
My doctoral research explores the origins and evolution of the Allied coalition in the Mediterranean during World War II. It assesses how Anglo-American personnel learned to manage and sustain vast combined and joint expeditionary undertakings in North Africa and Sicily. This was arguably the Allies’ greatest, if not most underrated strength—a uniquely collaborative way of war that stood in direct contrast to that employed by their enemies.
The complex systems required to wage warfare in this manner did not emerge in a vacuum, nor did they, as many popularly assume, “spring from the sea fully-formed like Aphrodite” at Normandy in June 1944. Rather, they were developed over a crucial twelve-month span in the Mediterranean between 1942 and 1943 as unfamiliar allies merged the soldiers and resources of two sovereign powers into one unified army for the first time in history.
The remarkable rapidity with which they did so not only facilitated a seismic shift in Western attitudes toward the practice of coalition warfare, I contend that it ushered multinational military operations themselves into the modern age.
Campaigning with the Buffs
I’m editing a soldier memoir entitled Campaigning with the Buffs: A Dane’s Odyssey from Anzio to the Alps. The book recounts the epic wartime journey of Aage Juul, a Danish soldier who fled Nazi-occupied Denmark, joined the British Army, and fought through the Italian campaign of World War II.
The Marshall Papers Digitization Project
Most days (these days) I spend my time combing and cataloguing the personal papers of General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U.S. Army during World War II. My work is part of an ongoing digitization project being conducted by the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia.
Down the Pipeline
| Type | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Book Review | Published | German General Heinz Greiner’s soldier-memoir of the Italian campaign (1944-45) |
| Book Review | Writing (H-War) | A recently published biography of the commander of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division during WWII entitled, Tubby: Raymond O. Barton and the U.S. Army, 1889-1963. |
| Book Chapter | Under Review | Covers the process through which British and American personnel defined and refined the principal collaborative mechanisms required to execute complex multinational operations in North Africa and Sicily during the Second World War. Prepared for an edited volume on Anglo-American relations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. |
Last updated: 10/29/24.