High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gunther E. Rothenberg (11 July 1923 – 26 April 2004) was an internationally known military historian. Although widely known for his books and journal articles on the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, Rothenberg also had a fifteen-year military career, serving in the British Army, the Haganah, and the United States Air Force during World War II, the 1948 War, and the Korean War. He emigrated to the United States in 1948 with $12 in his pocket.