(1949-09-01) 1 September 1949 (age 74) Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation
Military historian, author
Spouse
Pamela Symes
Website
Official website
Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, CVO, DL, FRSE, FRHistS, FBA (/strɔːn/STRAWN; born 1 September 1949) is a British military historian, well known for his leadership in scholarly studies of the British Army and the history of the First World War. He is currently professor of international relations at the University of St Andrews. Before that Strachan was the Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls College, Oxford.
Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, CVO, DL, FRSE, FRHistS, FBA (/strɔːn/ STRAWN; born 1 September 1949) is a British military historian, well known for...
lieutenant-general Hew Dalrymple Ross (1779–1868), British Army field marshal Hew Scott (1791–1872), minister of the Church of Scotland HewStrachan (born 1949)...
C. Strachan (born 1943), aide to H. R. Haldeman Harcus Strachan (1884–1982), Scottish-born Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross HewStrachan (born...
by experts and published by the Oxford University Press. According to HewStrachan, its intended readership is the 'intelligent general reader' rather than...
Capt. Sir John David Bingham Younger 28 June 1994 – 20 May 2014 Sir HewStrachan 20 May 2014 – present Sainty, J. C. "Lieutenants and Lord-Lieutenants...
tactics). In writings from the 1970s, Martin van Creveld, John Keegan, HewStrachan and others, studied the practical aspects of an invasion of France through...
rehabilitate the reputations of the senior commanders on the Somme. HewStrachan quoted Maurice Genevoix for the proposition "[i]f it is neither desirable...
Kurth Cronin 'Endless wars and no surrender,' in Holger Afflerbach, HewStrachan (eds.) How Fighting Ends: A History of Surrender, Oxford University Press...
such as HewStrachan to have been used as a post hoc ergo propter hoc excuse for failed offensives. Contemporary sources disagree with Strachan's view on...
influential British Clausewitzians today is Colin S. Gray; historian HewStrachan (like Wilkinson also the Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford...
wounded men. He gave his own life in a gallant attempt to save others. HewStrachan, The First World War in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2004) pp. 11...
British used force. Other scholars, such as David French, Ashley Jackson, HewStrachan, Paul Dixon, Alex Marshall, Brendon Piers and Caroline Elkins, have subsequently...
The Force of Destiny. p. 391. ISBN 978-0-713-99709-5. Keegan, 227. HewStrachan (2003) The First World War David Gilmour (2011). The Pursuit of Italy...
Province in Mozambique. Postage stamps and postal history of Kionga HewStrachan (2004). The First World War in Africa. Oxford University Press. p. 161...
to establish a new base at Beho-Beho. The First World War in Africa, HewStrachan. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-19-925728-7. Askaris, Asymmetry...
British Army, Manpower and Society into the Twenty-First Century, ed by HewStrachan ISBN 978-0-7146-8069-9 What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians...
of South Asian History. M.E. Sharpe. p. 74. ISBN 978-1563243332. HewStrachan, Hew (1978). "Soldiers, Strategy and Sebastopol". Historical Journal. 21...
Lord in succession to Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman. Military historian HewStrachan contends that Battenberg "lacked Fisher's dogmatism. Not the least of...
including The Cambridge Military Histories, which he co-edits with Oxford's HewStrachan. Wawro, curriculum vitae Archived 2010-02-02 at the Wayback Machine Accessed...
joined the war on the side of Germany and Austria within three months. HewStrachan wrote in 2001 that in hindsight, Ottoman belligerence was inevitable...
Friedrich. The Road to Serfdom. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1979. HewStrachan, The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (Oxford: Oxford University Press...
online p. 166, with 271,000 excess deaths in 1918 and 71,000 in 1919. Strachan, Hew (1998). World War 1. Oxford University Press. p. 125. ISBN 9780198206149...
diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view." Historian HewStrachan argues that war aims focused on territorial gains were not of central...
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