- Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953 in Fowler, California) is a conservative military historian, columnist, political essayist and former classics professor, best known as a scholar of ancient warfare as well as a commentator on modern warfare. He is also a farmer (growing raisin grapes) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is sometimes referred to as "VDH". - John Keegan
Sir John Keegan OBE (born 1934) is a British military historian, lecturer and journalist. As an author he has published a number of works on the nature of combat between the 14th and 21st centuries concerning land, air, maritime and intelligence warfare as well as the psychology of conflict. - Martin van Creveld
Martin van Creveld (born 1946) is an Israeli military historian and theorist. He was born in the Netherlands but has lived in Israel since shortly after his birth. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he has been on the faculty since 1971. He is the author of fifteen books on military history and strategy, of which "Command in War" (1985), "Supplying War" (1977, 2nd edition 2004), … - Michael Howard
Sir Michael Eliot Howard, OM, CH, CBE, MC (born 29 November 1922) is a retired British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. Howard was educated at Wellington College and Christ Church, Oxford (with service in World War II in between). - Max Hastings
Sir Max Hastings (born December 28, 1945) is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. He is the son of Macdonald Hastings, the noted British journalist and war correspondent, and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of "Harper's Bazaar" and, after her divorce from her first husband, the wife of Sir Osbert Lancaster. Hastings was educated at Charterhouse School and University College, Oxford, which he left after a year. - Richard Holmes
Edward Richard Holmes CBE TD JP (born March 29 1946), known as Richard Holmes, is a British soldier and noted military historian, particularly well-known through his many television appearances. Holmes was educated at the University of Cambridge, as well as Northern Illinois University and the University of Reading. In 1964, he enlisted in the Territorial Army, the part-time volunteer reserve organisation of the British Army. - Max Boot
Max Boot (born 1969 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is an American author, editorialist, lecturer and military historian. He has been a prominent advocate for neoconservative foreign policy, once describing his own position as support for the use of "American might to promote American ideals" throughout the world. He is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a contributing editor to "The Weekly Standard", … - Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Edward Ambrose, Ph.D. (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon. - Basil Liddell Hart
Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 - 29 January 1970), usually known before his knighthood as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was an English military historian who greatly influenced the development of armoured warfare in the 20th century, and strategic theory. He used "Liddell" (his mother's maiden name) as part of his surname from 1921. - William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 - February 14 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the United States Army during the American Civil War (1861-65), receiving both recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy, and criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies he implemented in conducting total war against the enemy, … - Correlli Barnett
Correlli Barnett CBE (born June 28 1927 in Norbury, Surrey) is an English military historian, who has also written extensively on the United Kingdom's industrial decline. - Gerhard Weinberg
Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg (born January 1, 1928) is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of World War II. Weinberg currently is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a member of the history faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1974. - Antony Beevor
Antony James Beevor (born December 14 1946) is a British historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. He studied under the famous historian of World War II, John Keegan. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars, who has published several popular histories on the Second World War and 20th century in general. - Donald Kagan
Donald Kagan (born 1932) is a Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He was Dean of Yale College from 1989-1992. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Born into a Jewish family in Lithuania, Kagan grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where his family emigrated shortly after the death of his father. - Peter Paret
Peter Paret is American military, cultural & art historian with a particular interest in the German history. Paret was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Dr. Hans Paret and Suzanne Aimée Cassirer, who divorced in 1932. The mother with her two children left Germany in 1932 to continue her studies with Sigmund Freud, and in 1934 married Siegfried Bernfeld, a prominent Viennese pyschoanalyst and educational reformer. - Edward Luttwak
Edward Nicolae Luttwak (born 1942) is an American economist and historian known for his many publications on military strategy and international relations. Luttwak was born into a Jewish family in Arad, Romania, raised in Italy and England. He later attended the London School of Economics and Johns Hopkins University, where he received a doctorate. His first academic post was at the University of Bath. - Martin Gilbert
Sir Martin John Gilbert, CBE (born October 25, 1936 in London) is a British historian and the author of over seventy books, including works on the Holocaust and Jewish history. He is best known as the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill. - Shelby Foote
Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American novelist and a noted historian of the American Civil War. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta alluvium, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote was relatively unknown to the general public for most of his career until his appearance in Ken Burns' PBS documentary "The Civil War" in 1990, … - Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May, 1859 - 7 July, 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. - Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell (born March 22, 1924, Pasadena, California, USA) is a cultural and literary historian, and professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of books on eighteenth-century English literature, the world wars, and social class, among others. Fussell was drafted into the Army in 1943, at age 19. In October 1944 he landed in France, as part of the 103rd Infantry Division. - Adrian Goldsworthy
Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969) is a British historian and military writer. After studying at St John's College, Oxford, he completed a Ph.D in ancient military history in 1994. Goldsworthy is the author of several books on the subject, including: *"The Roman Army at War 100 BC - AD 200" (OUP, 1996) *"Roman Warfare" (Cassell, 2000) ISBN 0-304-35265-9 *"The Punic Wars" (Cassell, … - J. F. C. Fuller
Major-General John Frederick Charles Fuller, CB, CBE, DSO, commonly J.F.C. Fuller, (September 1, 1878–February 10, 1966), was a British major-general, military historian and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorising principles of warfare. He was also the inventor of "artificial moonlight" and an occultist. - Alistair Horne
Sir Alistair Allan Horne (born November 9, 1925) is a British historian of modern France. He is the son of Sir James Horne and Lady Auriol Horne (formerly Auriol Hay). As a boy during World War II, he was sent to live in the United States. He attended Millbrook School, where he befriended William F. Buckley, Jr., who remains a life-long friend. Horne served in the RAF in 1943-44 and with the Coldstream Guards from 1944-1947. - Cornelius Ryan
Cornelius Ryan, (5 June 1920 - 23 November 1974) was an Irish journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially World War II. Born in Dublin and educated at Christian Brothers' School Synge Street, South Circular Road, Dublin, Ryan moved to London in 1940, and became a war correspondent for the "Daily Telegraph" in 1941. He initially covered the air war in Europe, … - Eliot A. Cohen
Eliot A. Cohen is a professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Cohen is the Director of the Strategic Studies department at SAIS and has specialized in strategic studies, the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Iraq, arms control, and NATO. He is a member of the Project for the New American Century and was called "the most influential neoconservative in academe" by energy economist Ahmad Faruqui. - Russell Weigley
Russell F. Weigley, PhD, was the Distinguished University Professor of History at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Weigley was a noted military historian. He was born in Reading, PA in 1930, and he died in Philadelphia in March 2004. His research and teaching interests centered on American and world military history, World War II, and the American Civil War. - Hew Strachan
Professor Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL, FRSE is a military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the history of the First World War. Commissioned by Oxford University Press to write a history of the First World War to replace C.R.M.F Cruttwell's one-volume "A History of the Great War, 1914-1918", Strachan completed the first of three volumes, … - John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy. He has been hailed as the 'Dean of Cold War Historians' by the The New York Times. He is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th century statesman George F. Kennan. He is best known for his critical analysis of the strategies of containment employed by the United States of America during the Cold War, … - Alan Clark
The Rt. Hon. Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April, 1928 - 5 September, 1999) was a British Conservative politician, historian and diarist. He was also a Privy Councillor, and was thus styled "The Rt. Hon. Alan Clark". - Gary Sheffield
Dr Gary Sheffield is a British academic and military historian. He has published widely, especially on the First World War, and contributes to many newspapers, journals and magazines. He frequently broadcasts on television and radio. He is variously credited as "Gary Sheffield", "G. Sheffield" and "G. D. Sheffield". Sheffield is currently Professor of War Studies at University of Birmingham. - Terry Copp
Terry Copp is a Canadian military historian and Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University and is Director of the Laurier Centre for Military and Strategic Disarmament Studies. Educated at Sir George Williams University (BA) and McGill University (MA), Copps has established a reputation as one of Canada's foremost military historians. His books include: *Cinderella Army : The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945, "2006". - David Hackworth
David Haskell Hackworth (November 11, 1930 - May 4, 2005) known affectionately as "Hack", was a retired United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist. - John Terraine
John Alfred Terraine (January 15, 1921 - December 28, 2003), though not an academic historian, was a leading British military historian. He is best known for his persuasive defence of Douglas Haig and also as the leading scriptwriter on the BBC's landmark 1960s documentary "The Great War". Terraine was educated at Stamford School and at Keble College, Oxford. After leaving Oxford, in 1944, he joined BBC radio and continued to work for the BBC for 20 years, … - Julian Thompson
Major General Julian H. A. Thompson, CB, OBE, is a military historian and former Royal Marines officer who as a brigadier headed 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands war. Thompson who was British commander on the islands during the final phase of the conflict has written extensively on the Falklands conflict and British military history. He is also a visiting professor at the department of war studies, King's College, University of London. - Gordon A. Craig
Gordon Alexander Craig (November 13, 1913, Glasgow - October 30, 2005) was a Scottish-American historian of German, Swiss and of diplomatic history. In 1925 Craig emigrated with his family to Toronto, Canada, and then to Jersey City in New Jersey. Initially interested in studying the law, Craig switched to History after hearing the historian Walter "Buzzer" Hall lecture at Princeton University. In 1935, Craig visited and lived for several months in Germany, … - Martin Middlebrook
Martin Middlebrook (born 1932) is a British military historian and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He wrote his first book "The First Day on the Somme" (1971) following a visit to the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium in 1967. This detailed study of the single worst day for the British Army remains a classic. Middlebrook gave the same single-day treatment to 21 March 1918, the opening of the German Spring Offensive, … - David Glantz
David M. Glantz is an American military historian and the editor of "The Journal of Slavic Military Studies". Glantz received degrees in history from the Virginia Military Institute and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill then entered active service with the US Army in 1963. His military career included membership in the history faculty of the United States Military Academy from 1969 through 1973. - Charles Oman
Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman (January 12 1860 - June 23 1946) was a notable British military historian of the early 20th century. His reconstructions of medieval battles from the fragmentary and distorted accounts left by chroniclers were pioneering. His style is an invigorating mixture of historical accuracy and emotional highlights, and it makes his narratives, though founded on deep research, often read as smoothly as fiction, … - Cyril Falls
Cyril Bentham Falls (1888 - 1971) was an English military historian. Cyril Falls was military officer, historian, and writer. He was the Chichele Professor of Military History at All Souls, Oxford University from 1909 to 1923. He served in World War I reaching the rank of Captain in the British army (36th Ulster Division) After the war he helped write several of the official British military histories of the war. - Robert Cowley
Robert Cowley is the founding editor of "MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History". He lives in New York and Connecticut, and he has also edited three collections of essays in counterfactual history known as "What If?"
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