David Stevenson (WW1 historian)

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David Stevenson (born 1954) is a British academic and historian specialising in World War I. He is currently Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Stevenson studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge, before receiving a Ph.D. from the same university. He became a Lecturer at the LSE in 1982. In 1988, he was appointed a Professor of International History. Between 2004 and 2005, he also received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship "for research on supply and logistics in 1914-1918"[1]


In addition to his publishing success, David Stevenson recently received an accolate outside of academic life when he was rated with a top 'Five Star' rating on a website designed to rate the attractivness of lecturers and teachers in British universities.

His next publication will be The Organization of Victory: the Sources of Allied Success in World War One, to be released by Penguin[1].

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b David Stevenson's LSE Page

[edit] Bibliography

  • Stevenson, D., French War Aims against Germany, 1914-1919, 1982 (Oxford University Press)
  • Stevenson, D., The First World War and International Politics, 1988 (Oxford University Press)
  • Stevenson, D., Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904-1914, 1996 (Oxford University Press)
  • Stevenson, D., The Outbreak of the First World War: 1914 in Perspective, 1997 (Macmillan)
  • Stevenson, D., 1914-1918: the History of the First World War, 2004 (Penguin Press), also published by as Cataclysm: the First World War as Political Tragedy (by Basic Books, USA), La Grande Guerra: Una Storia Globale (by Rizzoli, Italy) and Der Erste Weltkrieg (by Artemis and Winkler, Germany)