Geoffrey Best
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Geoffrey Francis Andrew Best FBA was an English historian known for his studies of warfare and works about Winston Churchill. Early life and family Geoffrey Best was born in Osterley, Middlesex, on 20 November 1928. He was educated at St Paul's School, London. He undertook his national service in the Royal Army Educational Corps teaching illiterate Scottish soldiers to read and write.
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- The Just War in the Middle Ages (1977) (226)
- Humanity in Warfare. The Modern History of the International Law of Armed Conflicts. (1980) (114)
- Humanity in Warfare (1980) (92)
- Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 (1973) (91)
- The origin and prevention of major wars (1990) (82)
- War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870 (1982) (50)
- Peace Conferences and the Century Of Total War: The 1899 Hague Conference and What Came After (1999) (39)
- The Forgotten Victim: A History of the Civilian (1984) (31)
- Temporal Pillars: Queen Anne's Bounty, The Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the Church of England. (1964) (28)
- History, society, and the churches : essays in honour of Owen Chadwick (1985) (23)
- Justice, international relations and human rights (1995) (23)
- Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory (2002) (21)
- Churchill: A Study In Greatness (2001) (21)
- The Protestant Constitution and its Supporters, 1800–1829 (1958) (21)
- The Permanent revolution : the French Revolution and its legacy, 1789-1989 (1988) (19)
- Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-1875 (1971) (17)
- THE WHIGS AND THE CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT IN THE AGE OF GREY AND HOLLAND (1960) (13)
- Honour Among Men and Nations: Transformations of an Idea (1982) (12)
- THE EVANGELICALS AND THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY (1959) (12)
- IV. The Religious Difficulties of National Education in England, 1800–70 (1956) (10)
- Mid-Victorian Britain 1851-1875@@@Death, Heaven and the Victorians (1974) (10)
- War, Economy and the Military Mind (1976) (8)
- The Constitutional Revolution, 1828–32 (1959) (7)
- 2. The Making of the English Working Class (1965) (7)
- World War Two and the law of war (1981) (5)
- The Victorian crisis of faith : six lectures (1974) (3)
- Armed Conflict and the new law: Aspects of the 1977 Geneva Protocols and the 1981 Weapons Convention (1989) (3)
- Military History (2021) (3)
- Whatever happened to Human Rights? (1990) (3)
- The diplomacy of biological disarmament: vicissitudes of a treaty in force 1975–85 (1989) (3)
- Honour among men and nations (1982) (2)
- The Maps on Churchill’s Mind (2008) (2)
- Churchill and War (2005) (2)
- The Geneva Conventions: Past, Present and Future (1974) (1)
- Church and state in English politics, 1800-1833 (1955) (1)
- Church Parties and Charities: The Experiences of Three American Visitors to England, 1823–1824 (1963) (1)
- 1. Noblemen and the Rest (1982) (0)
- 2. New Bearings on the Oxford Movement (1969) (0)
- Sparks between the dividers (1999) (0)
- Don't stop worrying (1995) (0)
- Britain and Blockade, 1780–1940 (1977) (0)
- THE MIND AND TIMES OF WILLIAM VAN MILDERT1 (1963) (0)
- 2. Democracy and Nationalization (1982) (0)
- Churchill and His Generals (review) (2007) (0)
- Book Review: Church and Parliament: the reshaping of the Church of England, 1828–1860 (1960) (0)
- Might, right and the rule of law (1999) (0)
- A Handy Guide to Holy Orders (1962) (0)
- One World or Several? Reflections on the modern History of International Law and Human Rights (1988) (0)
- The UN returns to the centre (1994) (0)
- How Right is Might? Some Aspects of the International Debate About how to Fight Wars and How to Win Them, 1870-1918 (2020) (0)
- In war, on terms (2006) (0)
- A Letter from Pusey to Bishop Maltby (1958) (0)
- Book Review: The Second World War. A People’s History, A War to be Won. Fighting the Second World War (2002) (0)
- Remembrance* (1989) (0)
- Book Review: Keith Suter, An International Law of Guerrilla Warfare: The Global Politics of Law-Making (London: Frances Pinter. 1984, 200pp., £ 16.00) (1985) (0)
- Education, Empire and Class: Growing Up in a New London Suburb in the 1930s (2009) (0)
- The imperilled Red Cross and the Palestine—Eretz-Yisrael conflict 1945–1952 (1996) (0)
- Rights and Responsibilities: International, Social, and Individual Dimensions Proceedings of a Conference November 1978 (1982) (0)
- J. M. Winter, editor. War and Economic Development: Essays in Memory of David Joslin. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Pp. viii, 297. $22.50 (1976) (0)
- English Philanthropy, 1660-1960 (1965) (0)
- Review: The Just War in the Middle Ages (1976) (0)
- International Humanitarian Law: Principles and Practices (2020) (0)
- From chariots to Clausewitz (1993) (0)
- Book Review: Peter Calvocoressi, A Time for Peace: Pacificism, Internationalism and Protest Forces in the Reduction of War (London: Hutchinson, 1987, 195pp., £12.95) (1988) (0)
- Review: International Law: Guerilla Et Droit Humanitaire (1978) (0)
- Shorter notice. Prisoners of War and their Captors in World War II. Moore and Fedorowich (eds.) (1999) (0)
- 3. Man and Mankind (1982) (0)
- Religion in the Industrial Revolution in South Wales. By E. T. Davies. (Pantyfedwen Lectures, 1962). Pp. x + 202. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1965. 21s. (1968) (0)
- English Philanthropy, 1660–1960 by David Owen (review) (2016) (0)
- Good time girls and aliens (2003) (0)
- The origins of Christian anti-internationalism. Conservative evangelicals and the League of Nations. By Markku Ruotsila. (Religion and Politics.) Pp. x+246. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2008. £17.75 ($29.50) (paper). 978 1 58901 190 8; 978 1 58901 191 5 (2009) (0)
- Raymond Callahan, Churchill and His Generals. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2007. 310 pp. (2007) (0)
- Between hot and cold war (1993) (0)
- Review: International/Strategic: Rights and Responsibilities (1982) (0)
- War in the head (1993) (0)
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