(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...
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...
influential British Clausewitzians today is Colin S. Gray; historian HewStrachan (like Wilkinson also the Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford...
Province in Mozambique. Postage stamps and postal history of Kionga HewStrachan (2004). The First World War in Africa. Oxford University Press. p. 161...
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...
diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view." Historian HewStrachan argues that war aims focused on territorial gains were not of central...
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...
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...
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 used force. Other scholars, such as David French, Ashley Jackson, HewStrachan, Paul Dixon, Alex Marshall, Brendon Piers and Caroline Elkins, have subsequently...
massacre (also involved Manie Maritz) Strachan, Hew (6 February 2003). The First World War: Volume I: To Arms – HewStrachan – Google Books. ISBN 9780191608346...
of South Asian History. M.E. Sharpe. p. 74. ISBN 978-1563243332. HewStrachan, Hew (1978). "Soldiers, Strategy and Sebastopol". Historical Journal. 21...
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...
Gibbs, 1953–1977 Michael Howard, 1977–1980 Robert O'Neill, 1987–2000 Sir HewStrachan, 2001–2015 Peter H. Wilson, 2015–present Mountague Bernard, 1859–1870...
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...
"The First World War" (a Channel 4 documentary based on the book by HewStrachan) "Chemical weapon | History, Facts, Types, & Effects". Faith, Thomas...
Friedrich. The Road to Serfdom. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1979. HewStrachan, The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (Oxford: Oxford University Press...
joined the war on the side of Germany and Austria within three months. HewStrachan wrote in 2001 that in hindsight, Ottoman belligerence was inevitable...
historian with a focus on Operation Barbarossa and the Battle of Moscow HewStrachan – military historian Sun Bin – claimed descent from Sun Tzu, and was...
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