Background
Childers was born in Tennessee where he was raised and later attended the University of Tennessee where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
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Soldier from the War Returning
(One of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men...)
One of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called "Good War." The Greatest Generation, we're told by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then returned to America happy, healthy and well-adjusted. They quickly and cheerfully went on with the business of rebuilding their lives.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003WJQ6JK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1
2009
The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
(In “the new definitive volume on the subject” (Houston Pr...)
In “the new definitive volume on the subject” (Houston Press), Thomas Childers shows how the young Hitler became passionately political and anti-Semitic as he lived on the margins of society. Fueled by outrage at the punitive terms imposed on Germany by the Versailles Treaty, he found his voice and drew a loyal following.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CO34OLQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
2017
Wings Of Morning: The Story Of The Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany In World War II
( On April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black ...)
On April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black Cat set off on one of the last air missions in the European theater of World War II. Ten never came back. This is the story of that crew—where they came from, how they trained, what it was like to fly a B-24 through enemy flak, and who was waiting for them to come home.Historian Thomas Childers, nephew of the Black Cat's radio operator, has reconstructed the lives and tragic deaths of these men through their letters home and through in-depth interviews, both with their families and with German villagers who lived near the crash site. In so doing he unearths confusion about the exact number of crash survivors and ugly rumors of their fate at the hands of the German villagers. His search to determine what really happened leads him to the crash site outside of Regensburg to lay the mystery to rest.In the tradition of Young Men and Fire, Wings of Morning is history as commemoration-an evocation of people and events that brings to life a story of love, loss, and a family's quest for truth.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201407221/?tag=2022091-20
The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933
(The first study based on a large national sample of both ...)
The first study based on a large national sample of both urban and rural districts examines the Nazi constituency -- how it was formed, from which social groups, under what conditions, and with what promises. Using advanced statistical techniques to analyze each national election of the Weimar era, Childres offers a new and challenging interpretation of who voted for Hitler's NSDAP and why. He also provides a systematic examination of Nazi campaign strategy.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807841471/?tag=2022091-20
The Great Courses: Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age
(Only three lifetimes ago, Europe was a farming society ru...)
Only three lifetimes ago, Europe was a farming society ruled by families of monarchs. But with two seismic tremors-capitalism and democracy-Europe's economic and royal foundations were shattered forever and modern European history began. In this series of 48 fascinating lectures, Professor Childers makes the history of Europe from the 1750s to the present-events both horrible and magnificent-as immediate as today's headlines, employing the historian's craft and a storyteller's skill to find the causes of what otherwise could seem to be the march of folly. The result is an intellectually exhilarating journey through a period of three lifetimes such as the world had never experienced. You'll see how in the span of just one life, England became an industrial, urban culture; tens of thousands were guillotined in France; Napoleon's Empire - the greatest since Rome-rose and fell; and revolution swept the capitals of Europe; how in the span of just one more, the Russian serfs were freed; Italy and Germany were created from a loose collection of city-states; European powers divided and conquered Africa; Darwin, Marx, Freud, and Einstein published world-shaking ideas; and millions died in a Great War; and how in that third lifetime, the world was plunged into economic depression, global war, and genocide; Europe abandoned its African colonies; the Soviet Union rose and fell; Fascism and Communism failed as democracy became the dominant form of government; and the same European powers that had bled each other for hundreds of years created a Common Market and unified currency.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156585389X/?tag=2022091-20
Thomas Childers
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He gained his Doctor of Philosophy in History in 1976 from Harvard University.
Career
Doctor Childers focuses much of his expertise on War and Society in the Twentieth Century and World War I and World War II While teaching at the University of Pennsylvania Doctor Childers has taken many Visiting Professorships at well-known colleges such as the University of Cambridge, Swarthmore College, and Trinity Hall College. He has also done many lectures throughout the world in places like Oxford, Berlin, Munich, and London. Doctor Childers"s work has been talked about by other historians.
Some of those acknowledgements can be found in the book Historiography in the Twentieth Century from Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge written by Georg G. Iggers.
Foreign example, Iggers states “Thomas Childers concentrates more directly on language.” (Iggers 1997)
Childers has lectured on four of The Great Courses series.
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The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933
(The first study based on a large national sample of both ...)
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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
(In “the new definitive volume on the subject” (Houston Pr...)
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Wings Of Morning: The Story Of The Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany In World War II
( On April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black ...)
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Soldier from the War Returning
(One of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men...)
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The Great Courses: Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age
(Only three lifetimes ago, Europe was a farming society ru...)
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The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933
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United States