- 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).
- 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), …
- David Irving
David John Cawdell Irving is a British writer specializing in the military history of World War II. He is the author of 30 books, including "The Destruction of Dresden" (1963), "Hitler's War" (1977), "Uprising!" (1981), "Churchill's War" (1987), and "Goebbels — Mastermind of the Third Reich" (1996).
- 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.
- 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.
- Geoffrey Parker
Noel Geoffrey Parker (born 1943 in Nottingham, England) is a leading expert on military history. His best known book is "Military Revolution. Military innovation and the rise of the West, 1500-1800", first published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. He holds his BA, MA, Ph.D. and Litt.D. degrees from Cambridge University where he studied under the historian, Sir John Huxtable Elliott. He has taught at the University of Illinois and Yale University.
- David Nicolle
David Nicolle is an historian specialising in the Military history of the Middle Ages, with a particular interest in the Middle East. Nicolle has worked for the BBC Arabic Service, and also lectured in World and Islamic art and architecture at Yarmouk University, Jordan. He currently lives in the United Kingdom. Nicolle was on the editorial board of the "Medieval History Magazine".
- 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, …
- Gwynne Dyer
Gwynne Dyer, Ph.D, MA, BA (born April 17, 1943) is a London-based independent Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and joined the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve at the age of sixteen. While still in the naval reserve, he obtained a BA in History from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1963; an MA in Military History from Rice University, Houston, Texas, …
- 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.
- Len Deighton
Leonard Cyril Deighton (born February 18, 1929, Marylebone, London) is a British historian and author of spy fiction and historical novels. Several of his novels have been adapted as films. His first four novels featured an anonymous anti-hero, named "Harry Palmer" in the films, and portrayed by Michael Caine. The first trilogy of his "Bernard Samson" novel series was made into a twelve-part television series by Granada Television in 1988, shown only once, …
- Stephen Turnbull
Dr Stephen Richard Turnbull is an historian specialising in eastern military history, especially the Samurai of Japan. He attended Cambridge University where he gained his first degree. He currently holds an MA in Theology, MA in Military History and a PhD from the University of Leeds where he is currently a lecturer in Far Eastern Religions. He has also written a number of books on other medieval topics.
- Christopher Gravett
Christopher Gravett is a British historian specialising in the military history of the Middle Ages, with an interest in the arms and armour of the period. Gravett has written a number of books and acts as an advisor for film and television projects. He is senior curator at the Royal Armouries, United Kingdom.
- Robert Leckie
Robert Leckie (1920 - 2001) was an American author of popular books on the military history of the United States. As a young man, he served in the 1st Marine Division during World War II. His experiences as a machine gunner at Guadalcanal are said to have greatly influenced his outlook. He continues to be a popular author. He has with over thirty-five works, many of which continue to be reprinted. He used a direct style in describing context and battle actions.
- 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, …
- Dan van der Vat
Dan van der Vat is a journalist and historian of military, primarily naval history. Van der Vat grew up in Nazi-German occupied Holland. He has worked for "The Times" and "The Guardian", both as a political and defence writer and as a foreign correspondent.
- Robert Bateman
Robert Lake Bateman (born 1967) is an American historian, author, and web and newspaper columnist. Bateman taught military history at the United States Military Academy. He is a United States Army Ranger, served as a commander in the 7th United States Cavalry, and served in Iraq from 2005 through 2006. He was once a "military fellow" at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
- Paul K. Davis
Paul K. Davis (1952-)is an historian specializing in military history. He earned his PhD from King's College, London. He currently teaches at T.M.I.—The Episcopal School of Texas.
- Kenneth Macksey
Kenneth Macksey (July 1, 1923 - November 30, 2005) was a British author and historian who specialized in military history and military biography, particularly of World War II. Macksey served in World War II under the command of Percy Hobart, later writing the (authoritative) biography of that leader. Additionally, Macksey wrote two volumes of alternative history, one dealing with the (successful) invasion of England by Germany in 1940 (Operation Sea Lion, …
- Jack Granatstein
Jack Lawrence Granatstein, OC, PhD, LLD, FRSC (born 1939) is a Canadian historian who specializes in political and military history. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Granatstein received a graduation diploma from Le College militaire royal de Saint-Jean in 1959, his BA from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1961, his MA from the University of Toronto in 1962 and his Ph.D from Duke University in 1966. He served in the Canadian Army from 1956 to 1966.
- 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.
- Hermann Hoth
Hermann "Papa" Hoth (12 April 1885 - 26 January 1971) was a general of the Third Reich during World War II. He fought in France, and is most noted for his later exploits as a panzer commander on the Eastern Front. After the war he served six years in prison for war crimes, and became a writer on military history.
- John Mosier
John Mosier is an American academic known for his work in English, film, and history. Mosier received his Ph.D. in 1968, from Tulane University. He completed his dissertation on the links between poetry and historiography. Mosier is probably best know for his revisionist military history books.
- 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.
- David Horner
David Horner is an Australian military historian and academic. He is a graduate of Royal Military College Duntroon and served in the Australian Army for 25 years, including active service in South Vietnam. Described as "one of Australia's most respected military historians", Horner has written over 20 books.
- 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.
- Nader Shah
Nāder Shāh Afshār (also known as "Nāder Qoli Beg" - نادر قلی بیگ or "Tahmāsp Qoli Khān" - تهماسپ قلی خان) (October 22, 1688 - June 19, 1747) ruled as Shah of Iran (1736-47) and was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty. Because of his military genius, some historians have described him as the "Napoleon of Persia" or the "Second Alexander".
- Martin Caidin
Martin Caidin (September 14, 1927-March 24,1997) was an American author and an authority on aeronautics and aviation. Caidin wrote more than 50 books, including "Samurai!", "Black Thursday", "Zero!", "The Ragged, Rugged Warriors", and many other classic works of military history. He wrote more than 1,000 magazine articles. Caidin established his own company to promote aeronautic subjects for a young audience and began writing fiction in 1957.
- Theodore Ayrault Dodge
Theodore Ayrault Dodge (28 May 1842 - 1909) was a Union officer in the American Civil War and a military historian of both that war and of the great generals of ancient and European history. He was considered by his contemporaries, as well as several other historians, to be the greatest American military historian of the nineteenth century.
- George Nafziger
George F. Nafziger is an American writer, an author and editor of numerous books and articles in military history. Nafziger is a former director of the Napoleonic Society of America and the Napoleonic Alliance. Nafdziger is the owner of The Nafziger Collection publishing house, specializing in the histories of Napoleonic Wars and World War II.
- Azar Gat
Azar Gat (b 1959) is a researcher and author on military history. He was the Chair of the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University (since 1999). Professor Gat has a BA from Haifa University (1975-8), an MA from Tel Aviv University (1979-83), and his PhD from the University of Oxford (1984-6). He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Germany (Freiburg), a Fulbright Fellow in the USA (Yale), a British Council Scholar in Britain (Oxford), …
- John Darrell Sherwood
John Darrell Sherwood (b. 1966) is an American author who has published three books and numerous articles. He specializes in military history, but has also published articles on travel, and skiing.
- Jim Bradbury
Jim Bradbury is a British historian specialising in the military history of the Middle Ages. Bradbury lectured in history at Brunel University.
- Marc Leepson
Marc Leepson (born June 20, 1945 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American journalist, historian, and author. His books include "Desperate Engagement: How a Little Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C. and Changed American History", "Flag: An American Biography", "Saving Monticello" and "Webster's New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War". Leepson was educated at Hillside High School in Hillside, …
- Piers MacKesy
Piers Gerald Mackesy (b. 15 September 1924) is a British military historian who taught at the University of Oxford.
- Christopher Bassford
Christopher Bassford (born 1953) is an American military historian. He completed a Ph.D. in modern European history at Purdue University and became director of studies in the theory and nature of war at the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Command and Staff College (where he remains an adjunct professor), then associate professor of National Policy Issues at the U.S. Army War College. He is presently Professor of Strategy at the National War College, in Washington, …
- Arther Ferrill
Arther Ferrill, now a professor emeritus of history at the University of Washington at Seattle, is also a respected expert on Ancient Rome and military history. He has written four books and is a regular contributor to The Quarterly Journal of Military History and other periodicals as an author and in review of other authors. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1964.
- Lynn Montross
Lynn Montross was born in Battle Creek, Nebraska in 1895, and lived in Denver, Colorado, before moving to Washington, D.C. He studied at the University of Nebraska before serving three years in an American Expeditionary Force (AEF) regiment in World War I (aka World War I) and afterward, became a free-lance writer for the Chicago Daily News. He died in 1961, barely a year after the publication of his most important book, War Through the Ages.
- David Eltis
Dr David Eltis is a British military historian and teacher at Eton College. His PhD thesis was written on the Military Revolution in 16th Century Europe. He is also the inventor of Flying Chess, in 1984. It adds an additional layor to the chess board above the standard one. On this the pieces can be considered to be 'flying'.
- Ronald Volstad
Ronald Volstad is a Canadian-born illustrator of Military History-related subject matter. His work is best known as box art for DML brand model kits and toy soldiers, and as illustrations for books published by the Osprey and Concord brands.