Annika Mombauer

Mombauer studied history at the Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität (University of Münster) in Münster, Germany, and at the University of Sussex, where she was awarded a D.Phil. in history in 1998. She joined the Open University staff in 1998 as lecturer in modern European history. In 2003, she also became a visiting fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, Australia.^[1]

From 2006 until 2011 she was the secretary of the German History Society.^{[2][failed verification]} As of 2014, she was a member of the editorial board of 1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War.^[3] She chaired the Open University department's Research Steering Group and the departmental REF panel until December 2013.^[1]

Mombauer was a contributor to Michael Portillo's documentary about the causes of World War I, The Great War of Words, broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in February 2014.^[4]

Mombauer was a contributor to Max Hastings' documentary about the causes of World War I, The Necessary War, broadcast by BBC 2 in February 2014.^[5]

• Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus. Longman, 2002.
• Die Julikrise. Europas Weg in den Ersten Weltkrieg (The July Crisis, Europe's Way to the First World War), published by C.H. Beck Verlag, Munich, 2014, 128 pp., ISBN 978-3-406-66108-2
• The Battle of the Marne, 1914. A comparative history, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

• Annika Mombauer - Open University
• Encyclopedia of the First World War - 1914-1918-online
• German HistorySociety