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John Erickson (b. April 17,1929 South Shields
South Shields

South Shields is a coastal town in Tyne and Wear, England, located at the mouth of the River Tyne, England. The town has a population of about 90,000 and is part of the Metropolitan_borough of South Tyneside, which includes the riverside towns of Jarrow and Hebburn and the villages of Boldon, Cleadon and Whitburn....
, Eng. – d. Feb. 10, 2002 Edinburgh
Edinburgh

Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
, Scot.), was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 historian who wrote extensively on the Second World War, with books on Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 kilometer front ....
 and the Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Nazi Germany and its allies and the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia....
.

He gave a considerable amount of on-screen opinion to the Battlefield (documentary series)
Battlefield (documentary series)

Battlefield is a documentary series initially issued in 1994-5 that explores the most important battles fought during the Second World War. The series employs a novel approach in which the history of World War II is described by detailed accounts of 12 major battles together with a variety of background and other related information....
, in programs dealing with the Eastern Front and Armoured Warfare and appeared in subsequent documentaries.

He was Professor Emeritus and Honorary Fellow in Defence Studies at the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh founded in 1582, is an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom....
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John Erickson (b. April 17,1929 South Shields
South Shields

South Shields is a coastal town in Tyne and Wear, England, located at the mouth of the River Tyne, England. The town has a population of about 90,000 and is part of the Metropolitan_borough of South Tyneside, which includes the riverside towns of Jarrow and Hebburn and the villages of Boldon, Cleadon and Whitburn....
, Eng. – d. Feb. 10, 2002 Edinburgh
Edinburgh

Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
, Scot.), was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 historian who wrote extensively on the Second World War, with books on Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 kilometer front ....
 and the Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Nazi Germany and its allies and the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia....
.

He gave a considerable amount of on-screen opinion to the Battlefield (documentary series)
Battlefield (documentary series)

Battlefield is a documentary series initially issued in 1994-5 that explores the most important battles fought during the Second World War. The series employs a novel approach in which the history of World War II is described by detailed accounts of 12 major battles together with a variety of background and other related information....
, in programs dealing with the Eastern Front and Armoured Warfare and appeared in subsequent documentaries.

He was Professor Emeritus and Honorary Fellow in Defence Studies at the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh founded in 1582, is an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom....
. His wife, Ljubica Erickson, spent many years with her husband researching Russian military affairs, in particular the Soviet Army
Red Army

The Red Army was the armed force first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and, in 1922, became the army of the Soviet Union....
 and the Soviet-German war
Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front of World War II was a Theatre between the German Reich and the Soviet Union which encompassed Central Europe and eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945....
.

Publications

  • The Soviet High Command 1918-1941:A Military-Political History 1918-1941, St Martin's Press (Macmillan), London, 1962
  • Panslavism , Routledge & Kegan Paul, for The Historical Association, London, 1964
  • The Military-Technical Revolution, Praeger, New York, 1966 (Revised and updated papers from a symposium held at the Institute for the Study of the USSR, Munich, Oct. 1964)
  • The Road To Stalingrad, Stalin's War With Germany Volume 1, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York 1975 ISBN 0060111410
  • Soviet Military Power, Royal United Services Institution, London, 1976?
  • Soviet Military Power and Performance, Palgrave Macmillan Press, London, 1979 ISBN 0333220811
  • The Road To Stalingrad, Stalin's War With Germany Volume 1, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 1983
  • The Road to Berlin. Stalin's War with Germany Volume 2, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1983
  • The Soviet Ground Forces: An Operational Assessment, Westview Printing, ISBN 0891587969
  • Deep battle: The brainchild of Marshal Tukhachevski by Richard Simpkin
    Richard Simpkin

    Brigadier Richard Evelyn Simpkin Military Cross was a British Army officer.Simpkin was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment in 1941. He cut short a degree course at Cambridge so to do....
     in association with John Erickson, Brasseys's, 1987
  • The Russian Front
    Eastern Front (World War II)

    The Eastern Front of World War II was a Theatre between the German Reich and the Soviet Union which encompassed Central Europe and eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945....
    , a four part narrated televised series, Cromwell Films, 1998
  • Barbarossa
    Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 kilometer front ....
    : The Axis
    Axis Powers

    The Axis powers were those countries that were opposed to the Allies of World War II during World War II. The three major Axis powers - Nazi Germany, Kingdom of Italy , and Empire of Japan - were part of a military alliance on the signing of the Tripartite Pact in September 1940, which officially founded the Axis powers....
     and the Allies, Erickson, John and Dilks, David, eds., Edinburgh University Press, 1994 (contributors include Dmitri Volkogonov, Harry Hinsley, Klaus-Jurgen Muller, Klaus Reinhardt)
  • Hitler Versus Stalin: The Second World War on the Eastern Front in Photographs, Carlton Publishing Group, 2004 ISBN 1844427277