
Peter Schrijvers is a professor of United States History at The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He holds degrees from The Catholic University of Leuven (Licentie History 1986) and The Ohio State University at Columbus (PhD History 1995: United States Diplomatic and Military History). He formerly taught American foreign relations history at The Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Peter Schrijvers is the author of six books on the American involvement in World War II and has published with, among others, Cambridge University Press, Yale University Press, New York University Press, and Palgrave Macmillan. He was awarded the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, has been a recipient of major research grants from the Swiss and Australian Research Councils, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Antwerp and the Center for the Study of War and Society in Brussels.