Jerry De Groot
Prof Gerard De Groot

Professor Gerard De Groot

BA (Whitman), PhD (Edin.), FRHistS

 
Contact Details

E-mail -  gjdg@st-and.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462898
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462927

 

Teaching and Research Interests

Teaches 20th Century British and American History, and has published ten books on various aspects of 20th Century History. His book on the atom bomb was published to considerable acclaim and won a prestigious literary prize. His iconoclastic history of the Apollo Moon Mission will be published by New York University Press in September 2006. He is currently writing an international history of the 1960s for Macmillan and Harvard University Press.

Main Publications

  • Douglas Haig, 1861-1928 (1988)
  • Liberal Crusader: The Life of Sir Archibald Sinclair (1993)
  • Blighty: British Society in the Era of The Great War (1996) [Details]
  • Military Miscellany I (1997)
  • Student Protest: The Sixties and after (1998) [Details]
  • A Noble Cause?: America and the Vietnam War (1999) [Details]
  • A Soldier and a Women (2000) [Details]
  • The First World War (2001) [Details]
  • The Bomb: A Life (2004) [Details]
  • Dark Side of the Moon (2006) [Details]
  • The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade (2008) [Details]

Teaching Duties

Offers the following Honours courses:

Research Students

  • Helen Bury, Dwight Eisenhower's "Open Skies" Proposal
  • Chris Hill, A Struggle for Cultural Hegemony: Mass Media and Protest in Britain, 1958-68
  • Allan Macfarlane, Admiral Jellicoe: a biography
  • Megan Stahl, The Judgement of the Symbionese Liberation Army: Media Treatment of American Political Violence in the 1970s
  • Rafael Torrubia, Culture from the Midnight Hour: a critical reassessment of the Black Power Movement in America
Main Publications

The Sixties Unplugged

The Bomb

 

Dark Side of the Moon