Dr Alaric Searle

Reader in Military History

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AY 2012/13, Semester 2:

Weds., 11.30-13.00 (or by appointment)

Alaric Searle holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh, the Free University Berlin and the University of Munich. After completing degrees in Edinburgh, he moved to Germany two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, where he worked as a language instructor and research assistant for the German Armed Forces. He was subsequently a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Munich, where he also worked as a post-doctoral research fellow.

His research and teaching interests lie in military history, German and British political, security and intelligence history in the twentieth century, as well as Europe in the interwar period, the history of military thought since ancient China, the study of memoirs and autobiographies, and historical theory and method.

He was Visiting Scholar at St. John’s College, Oxford, in 2009, and Honorary Fellow at the Historisches Kolleg, Munich, in 2012. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte, the leading academic military history society for German-speaking central Europe, since 2007. He joined the University of Salford in September 2005.

UG Level 4 Introduction to Contemporary Military History 1

UG Level 4 Introduction to Contemporary Military History 2

UG Level 5 Armoured Warfare

UG Level 6 Theories of War

Military History; German History; British History; Strategic Studies; Intelligence History

M.A. (Hons.) in History, University of Edinburgh

M.Phil. in Defence Studies, University of Edinburgh

Dr.phil. in Modern History, Free University Berlin

Habilitation in Modern History, University of Munich

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Member, Army Records Society

Member, Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte

Member, German History Society

Member, Prince Albert Society

Wehrmacht Generals, West German Society, and the Debate on Rearmament, 1949-1959 (Praeger Publishers: Westport, CT, 2003).

‘Internecine Secret Service Wars Revisited: The Intelligence Career of Count Gerhard von Schwerin, 1945-56’, Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift, 71, Heft 1 (2012), pp. 25-55.

‘Ideology and Total War: Military Intellectuals and the Analysis of the Spanish Civil War in Britain, 1936-1943’, Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift, 68, Heft 2 (2009), pp. 321-344.

‘Uneasy Intelligence Cooperation, Genuine Ill Will, with an Admixture of Ideology: The British Military Mission to the Soviet Union, 1941-45’, in Donald Stoker (ed.), Military Advising and Assistance: From Mercenaries to Privatization, 1815-2007 (Routledge: London, 2008), pp. 61-80.

‘The Tolsdorff Trials in Traunstein: Public and Judicial Attitudes to the Wehrmacht in the Federal Republic, 1954-60’, German History, 23/1 (2005), pp. 50-78.

‘Was There a “Boney” Fuller after the Second World War? Major-General J.F.C. Fuller as Military Theorist and Commentator, 1945-1966’, War in History, 11 (July 2004), pp. 327-357.