I teach courses on the history of Western civilization, modern Europe, warfare, the writings of George Orwell, and historical writing. I write about war.

• The Politics of Educational Reform in France, 1918-1940
  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969
• The War Without A Name; France in Algeria, 1954-1962
  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980
• The Pen-and-Ink Sailor: Sir Charles Middleton and the King’s Navy, 1778-1813
  London: Frank Cass, 1998
• Europe, 1945 to the Present
  New York: Oxford University Press, 2005
• “Soldiers, Psychiatrists, and Combat Trauma,”
  Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 27:3 (Winter 1997), 437-54.

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, 1975-76
• University of California President’s Fellow in the Humanities, 1993-94
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellow in the Humanities, 1993-94
• John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation Fellow 1994-1996