Hew Strachan
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan , 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.
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- Training, Morale and Modern War (2006) (112)
- European Armies and the Conduct of War (1983) (112)
- The lost meaning of strategy (2005) (107)
- The politics of the British Army (1999) (107)
- The Oxford companion to military history (2001) (100)
- THE FIRST WORLD WAR (2000) (93)
- The First World War in Africa (2004) (80)
- Making strategy: Civil–military relations after Iraq (2006) (62)
- The Changing Character of War (2014) (55)
- The First World War as a global war (2010) (54)
- The Civil-military ‘gap’ in Britain (2003) (49)
- Clausewitz's on War : A Biography (2007) (43)
- The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective (2013) (40)
- The Oxford illustrated history of the First World War (1998) (38)
- British Counter-Insurgency from Malaya to Iraq (2007) (38)
- Wellington's Legacy: The Reform of the British Army, 1830-54 (1984) (36)
- The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (2001) (32)
- Strategy or Alibi? Obama, McChrystal and the Operational Level of War (2010) (32)
- Essay and Reflection: On Total War and Modern War (2000) (32)
- Big wars and small wars : the British army and the lessons of war in the twentieth century (2006) (30)
- Strategy and the Limitation of War (2008) (30)
- The First World War: To Arms (2002) (29)
- The British Way in Warfare Revisited (1983) (28)
- Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918 (1991) (27)
- Maritime Strategy (2007) (27)
- The First World War, Vol. 1, to Arms (2002) (25)
- The Outbreak of the First World War (2004) (25)
- The Strategic Gap in British Defence Policy (2009) (23)
- The British Army, Manpower and Society into the Twenty-First Century (2021) (23)
- The First World War : a new illustrated history (2006) (22)
- The battle of the Somme and British strategy (1998) (21)
- Strategy and contingency (2011) (19)
- Strategy in a Fishbowl An Invitation to Determine the Shape of IMIA in 2015 (2006) (18)
- Scotland's Military Identity (2006) (18)
- The Oxford illustrated history of modern war (1998) (16)
- Strategy in theory; strategy in practice (2019) (15)
- Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War (2015) (15)
- Clausewitz and the Dialectics of War (2007) (15)
- Financing the First World War (1993) (13)
- Strategy in the Twenty-First Century (2011) (12)
- World War I: A History (1999) (12)
- From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, Technology, and the British Army 1815-1854 (1985) (12)
- ONE WAR, JOINT WARFARE (2009) (9)
- ‘The Real War’: Liddell Hart, Cruttwell, and Falls (1991) (8)
- Brithish National Strategy: Who Does It? (2013) (8)
- The early Victorian army and the nineteenth-century revolution in government (1980) (8)
- Tin-Pots and pirate ships: Canadian naval forces and German sea raiders 1880–1918 (1992) (7)
- Lost and found in the jungle: The Indian and British Army jungle warfare doctrines for Burma, 1943–5, and the Malayan Emergency, 1948–60 (2006) (7)
- War and empire (2004) (7)
- The War to End All Wars (2003) (7)
- Operational Art and Britain, 1909–2009 (2010) (7)
- John Buchan and the First World War: Fact into Fiction (2009) (6)
- Preemption and Prevention in Historical Perspective (2007) (5)
- Soldiers, Strategy and Sebastopol (1978) (5)
- At the closing of the Great War (1998) (5)
- Der Erste Weltkrieg : eine neue illustrierte Geschichte (2004) (4)
- Review article - The origins of the First World War (2014) (4)
- Strategy and War (2012) (4)
- From Cabinet War to Total War (2000) (4)
- The First World War: Causes and Course (1986) (4)
- BRITAIN'S DETERRENT (1980) (4)
- Germany in the First World War: The Problem of Strategy (1994) (4)
- The Direction of War: Technology and strategy (2013) (4)
- Strategy as a Balancing Act (2008) (3)
- The origins of the First World War (2014) (3)
- A General Typology of Transcultural Wars — The Modern Ages (2006) (3)
- Strategy and Democracy (2020) (3)
- THE TOWN THAT WEEPS (2010) (3)
- Zwischen Kaiser und ‘Führer’. Generalfeldmarschall August von Mackensen (1997) (3)
- Strategy and the operational level of war (2013) (2)
- Conventional defence in Europe (1985) (2)
- The War to End All Wars? Lessons of World War I Revisited (2003) (2)
- Between the South African War and the First World War, 1902–14 E D WA R D M . SPIERS (2006) (2)
- ‘Heroic’ Warfare and the Problem of Mass Armies: France 1871–1914 (2014) (1)
- A World at Total War: Total War: The Conduct of War, 1939-1945 (2004) (1)
- The British Army and Society (1979) (1)
- Towards a comparative history of World War I. Some reflexions (2008) (1)
- Kevin Linch. Britain and Wellington's Army: Recruitment, Society and Tradition, 1807–1815. (2012) (1)
- Arms in Academe: War Studies at Universities (1979) (1)
- The Direction of War: The case for Clausewitz: reading On war today (2013) (1)
- The Direction of War: The limitations of strategic culture:the case of the British way in warfare (2013) (1)
- The Direction of War: War and strategy at the beginning of the twenty-first century (2013) (1)
- Liberalism and Conscription 1789–1919 (2021) (1)
- The Utility of Military Force and Public Understanding in Today's Britain (2020) (1)
- The Direction of War: Strategy and contingency (2013) (1)
- The Changing Character of War in a Multi-Polar World: Hew Strachan Discusses the Impact of Three Major New Elements in Warfare and Suggests That It Is Too Early to Predict Their Likely Impact on Strategy (2010) (1)
- INTO HISTORY (2009) (1)
- Global Britain in a competitive age: strategy and the Integrated Review (2021) (1)
- Campaign Plans, War Plans and British Defence Policy (2008) (1)
- The Direction of War: War is war: imperial legacies and current conflicts (2013) (1)
- âHeroicâ Warfare and the Problem of Mass Armies (2014) (1)
- The Shadows of Total War: War and Society in the 1920s and 1930s (2003) (1)
- The Forgotten Front: The Eastern Theater of World War I, 1914 - 1915 (2018) (1)
- Deterrence theory: The problems of continuity (1984) (1)
- The Study of War at Oxford 1909–2009 (2014) (1)
- Enlightened War: German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz (review) (2012) (1)
- Book Review: Frankreichs Außenpolitik in der Julikrise 1914: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Ausbruchs des Ersten Weltkrieges By Stefan Schmidt (2013) (1)
- Book Reviews : Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918. By Bruce I. Gudmundsson. New York and London: Praeger. 1989. xvii + 210 pp. 34.50 (1991) (0)
- Book Reviews : Falkenhayn, Politisches Denken und Handeln im Kaiserreich. By Holger Afflerbach. Schriftenreihe des Militirgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes Band 42. Munich: R. Oldenbourg. 1994. xiii + 586 pp. DM 88 boards. ISBN 3 486 55972 9 (1995) (0)
- The Impact of the First World War on Strategy (2014) (0)
- A ‘True Chameleon’? (2012) (0)
- Generating Cyclic Plans for Traffic Signals (2004) (0)
- The Direction of War: Introduction (2013) (0)
- German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914–1918. By Matthew Stibbe. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare. Edited by, Jay Winter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii+267. $59.95. (2004) (0)
- European armies and limited war (2013) (0)
- 3 The Scottish Soldier and Scotland, 1914–1918 (2016) (0)
- Der Erste Weltkrieg als globaler Krieg (2015) (0)
- Book Review: War Damage in Western Europe: The Destruction of Historic Monuments in the Second World War (2004) (0)
- The British Army, 1815–1856; recent writing reviewed (2020) (0)
- Book Review: Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (2003) (0)
- Scotland and War, AD 79–1918. Edited by Norman Macdougall. Pp. xiv, 216. Edinburgh: John Donald. 1991. £30.00. (1993) (0)
- Book Review: The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds (2003) (0)
- Reviews of Books (1952) (0)
- The First World War: an Agrarian Interpretation . By Avner Offer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. 449. £25. (1991) (0)
- Fighting Power: Interpretive Issues. The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, 1950 (2008) (0)
- The Hungarian Air Service, 1918-45 (2014) (0)
- Review Article : Germany in the First World War: The Problem of Strategy (1994) (0)
- Maritime strategy and national policy (2013) (0)
- The Military Experience in the Age of Reason. By Christopher Duffy. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987. Pp. ix + 346. £19.95. (1988) (0)
- Hew Strachan: Can European Armies Only Fight Limited Wars? (2011) (0)
- Book Review: On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871 (2001) (0)
- Michael Howard and the dimensions of military history (2020) (0)
- Britain, France and the Financing of the First World War. By Martin Horn. Montreal: McGill–Queen's University Press, 2001. vi + 262 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-198-20871-1 (2003) (0)
- The Eastern Front (2018) (0)
- Reviews of Books (1981) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- Book Review: Imagining Future War: The West's Technological Revolution and Visions of Wars to Come, 1880—1914. By Antulio J. Echevarria II. Praeger Security International. 2007. xvi + 117 pp. ISBN 978 0 275 98725 1 (2009) (0)
- Book Review: Anglo-French Relations and Strategy on the Western Front, 1914-18, Strategy and Intelligence: British Policy during the First World War (2001) (0)
- How the war was waged (1995) (0)
- Military Operations and National Policies, 1914–1918 (2015) (0)
- War: an enquiry (2018) (0)
- 1915: Auf der Suche nach Lösungen (2016) (0)
- The idea of war (2009) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2020) (0)
- The Direction of War: Strategy and the limitation of war (2013) (0)
- July 1914: The Long Debate, 1918-1990 (1992) (0)
- Care by computers. Interview by Jill Fardell. (1988) (0)
- Book Review: The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert (2022) (0)
- Making strategy work: civil–military relations in Britain and the United States (2013) (0)
- The end of the beginning (2002) (0)
- Book Review: ‘Krieg im Frieden’. Die Führung der k.u.k. Armee und die Großmachtpolitik Österreich-Ungarns 1906-1914 (2006) (0)
- Book Reviews : Tin-Pots and pirate ships: Canadian naval forces and German sea raiders 1880- 1918. By Michael L. Hadley and Roger Sarty. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1991. xvi + 391 pp. 27.50 (1992) (0)
- Reviews of Books (1980) (0)
- Shorter notice. Studies in British Military Thought: Debates with Fuller and Liddell Hart. B Holden Reid (2000) (0)
- Book Reviews : Zwischen Kaiser und 'Fuhrer'. Generalfeldmarschall August von Mackensen. By Theo Schwarzmuller. Paderbom: Ferdinand Schoningh. 1995. 463 pp. DM68 (1997) (0)
- On all fronts: EOKA and the Cyprus insurgency, 1955-1959 (2010) (0)
- Editorial (2006) (0)
- Learning Lessons from Afghanistan: Two Imperatives (2019) (0)
- Book Review: Kriegsgeschichte und Geschichtspolitik: Der Erste Weltkrieg. Die amtliche deutsche Militärgeschichtsschreibung, 1914-1956 (2004) (0)
- Book Reviews: On Clausewitz: A Study of Military and Political Ideas. By Hugh Smith. Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. xi + 303 pp. Paper. ISBN 1 4039 3587 4 (2007) (0)
- Tim Gale, The French Army’s Tank Force and Armoured Warfare in the Great War: the Artillerie Spéciale (2016) (0)
- Editorial (2004) (0)
- Liddell Hart. A Study of his Military Thought . By Brian Bond. London: Cassell, 1977. Pp. 289. £7.95. - ‘ Boney ’ Fuller. The Intellectual General . By Anthony John Trythall. London: Cassell, 1977. Pp. 314. £6.95. (1978) (0)
- The Direction of War: Strategy: change and continuity (2013) (0)
- Other people's battles (1998) (0)
- Book Reviews : July 1914: The Long Debate, 1918-1990. By John W. Langdon. New York and Oxford: Berg. 1990. xi + 196 pp. 25.00 (1992) (0)
- The Scottish Soldier and Scotland, 1914–1918 (2016) (0)
- Fascist warfare, 1922-1945: aggression, occupation, annihilation (2021) (0)
- The future of strategic studies: Lessons from the last ‘golden age’ (2018) (0)
- Book Review: The Outbreak of the First World War: Strategic Planning, Crisis Decision Making and Deterrence Failure (1997) (0)
- The War Experienced: Command, Strategy, and Tactics, 1914–18 (2010) (0)
- The Direction of War: The meaning of strategy: historical perspectives (2013) (0)
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