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Alexander Watson was born on 12 July, 1979, is a British historian (born 1979). Discover Alexander Watson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 44 years old?

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Age 44 years old
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Born 12 July, 1979
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1914

His previous book, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918, won numerous awards.

Currently Watson is Professor of History at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Watson's first book, Enduring the Great War; Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German armies (1914–1918), began as his doctoral thesis in October 2001.

It follows a Habsburg garrison of old soldiers defending the city from Russian attack, and recounts the fighting, starvation and anti-Semitic ethnic cleansing which began in the region already in 1914.

1979

Alexander James Watson (born 12 July 1979) is a British historian.

He is the author of three books, which focus on East-Central Europe, Germany and Britain during World War I.

His most recent book, The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl was praised by The Times newspaper as a "masterpiece".

2000

In 2000, Watson received his Bachelor of Arts (hons) degree in Modern history from Exeter College, Oxford.

2001

He began his doctoral degree in 2001 at Balliol College, Oxford, and completed in 2005.

2005

From 2005 to 2008, he was a Clare Hall, Cambridge Research Fellow.

2006

In 2006, it was awarded the Fraenkel Prize from the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library.

2008

For three years, starting in 2008, Watson was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge.

It was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.

The book focuses on the psyche of German and British soldiers in World War I and attempts to understand how they were able to fight for all those years.

2010

In 2010, he was a College Research Associate at St. John's College, Cambridge.

2011

Watson was a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the University of Warsaw in Poland from 2011 to 2013.

2014

In August 2014, Watson's second book, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War (1914–1918) was published.

To write the book, he spent two years researching archives in Poland, Germany, and Austria.

His reason for writing the book was to better understand the war from the perspective of the Central Powers' leaders and their peoples; how they were able to endure suffering and commit crimes that would later lead to "even greater horrors of totalitarian dictatorship, a second world war and genocide".

The book received many accolades.

It was awarded The Sunday Times 2014 History Book of the Year, the 2015 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History, and the 2015 British Army Military Book of the Year.

2015

On 23 March 2015 Watson was awarded the second annual 2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History (now the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History at the New-York Historical Society), and received $50,000.

The award is given to the best book in the field of military history published during the previous calendar year.

During a ceremony on 14 May 2015, Watson received the Wolfson History Prize for Ring of Steel.

Along with this prize, Watson was also awarded £25,000.

2019

The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl, Watson's most recent book, was released in October 2019.

This is the story of the First World War's longest siege, and of the opening of the brutal tragedy which befell East-Central Europe during the twentieth century.

The book was a finalist for the 2019 Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History.

Watson has written for The New York Times, Times Higher Education, and History Today.

He has been interviewed for BBC Radio programmes, "World War One" and "Good Morning, Scotland", and appeared on the German Channel's documentary, "The Search for the Lost Sons. One Hundred Years of the First World War".

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