Author Biography
The Author: Henry Cord Meyer, born at Chicago USA, has been professionally active since 1939. He holds degrees from the universities of Colorado (1935), Iowa (1937), and Yale (1941) and several honorary doctorates. During World War II he was a research analyst at the Office of Strategic Services. He has been professor of history at several American colleges and universities, most recently at the University of California, Irvine. His major works include Mitteleuropa in German Thought and Action, 1915-1945 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1955; The Long Generation: Germany from Empire to Ruin, 1913-1945 (New York: Harper & Row, 1973); and Airshipmen, Businessmen, and Politics, 1890-1940 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991).
