Description: A unique, analytical, multi-disciplinary examination of the history, effects and results of expeditionary police advising.
Brief description: Edward B. Westermann is a professor of history at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. A former USAF pilot, he was a Professor of Comparative Military Theory at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies at Maxwell A.F.B. in Alabama and a Professor of Military Strategy at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He teaches courses on European History, the Holocaust, and War and Society. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, a German Academic Exchange Service Fellow, and a Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of numerous publications including Hitler's Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East and Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defenses, 1914-1945. His latest book, Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Conquest and Genocide, was published in 2016.