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According to Wikipedia, Robin David Stewart Higham was a British-American historian, specializing in aerospace and military history, who also served as a pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Early life and family Higham was born to a British veteran of the First World War and Margaret Anne Stewart, an American woman. Born in 1925, he grew up in London but had already met relatives in Texas and Oklahoma with his mother in 1929 and 1935. Following the outbreak of the Battle of Britain in 1940, Higham's parents sent him to the United States. He attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut.

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Voices Prophesying War, 1763-1984 (1970) (69)
The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front, and the Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-1918 (1989) (62)
The military history of Tsarist Russia (2002) (58)
A Military History of China (2002) (52)
Strategic Bombing in World War Two: The Story of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (1976) (50)
Creating an Islamic State: Khomeini and the Making of the New Iran (2001) (33)
The icarus syndrome. (1978) (28)
The British Aircraft Industry (1992) (24)
The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350–1750 (1993) (22)
The Plans of War: The General Staff and British Military Strategy c. 1900–1916 (1975) (21)
Defense of the Realm: British Strategy in the Nuclear Epoch (1968) (20)
Air Power: A Concise History (1974) (19)
The Education of a Navy. The Development of British Naval Strategic Thought, 1867-1914 (1984) (18)
The military intellectuals in Britain, 1918-1939 (1966) (16)
The Military Intellectuals in Britain (1967) (16)
A Guide to the Sources of British Military History (1972) (15)
The South African War, 1899–1902 (2000) (13)
East Timor: The Price of Freedom (2000) (12)
The Iranian Revolution Then and Now: Indicators of Regime Instability (2000) (12)
Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women (2003) (11)
Buying Aircraft: Matériel Procurement for the Army Air Forces (2015) (11)
A Guide to the Sources of United States Military History: Supplement I (1976) (10)
The British Rigid Airship, 1908-1931: A Study in Weapons Policy (1965) (9)
Britain's Imperial air routes, 1918 to 1939 : the story of Britain's overseas airlines (1965) (9)
Researching World War I: A Handbook (2003) (9)
Quantity vs. Quality: The Impact of Changing Demand on the British Aircraft Industry, 1900–1960 (1968) (9)
Bayonets in the Streets: The Use of Troops in Civil Disturbances. (1970) (8)
Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Military History (1999) (8)
Sky Fever : The Autobiography of Sir Geoffrey De Havilland (1999) (8)
Test Pilots-The Frontiersmen of Flight: An Illustrated History (1983) (7)
Soviet Aviation And Air Power: A Historical View (1978) (6)
The Military History of the Soviet Union (2002) (6)
The Metaxas dictatorship : aspects of Greece, 1936-1940 (1993) (6)
Gentlemen Capitalists: The Social and Political World of the Victorian Businessman (1992) (6)
Retaliation: Japanese Attacks and Allied Countermeasures on the Pacific Coast in World War II (1975) (6)
World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with General Sources: A Handbook of Literature and Research (1997) (6)
Government, Companies, and National Defense: British Aeronautical Experience, 1918–1945 as the Basis for a Broad Hypothesis (1965) (6)
Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Air Force (1992) (5)
Peddler of Death: The Life and Times of Sir Basil Zaharoff (1966) (5)
The Messerschmitt Me-262: Arrow to the Future (1980) (5)
Integration of moisturizers and cleansers into a busy dermatology practice. (2005) (5)
The Armed Forces in Peacetimes, Britain, 1918-1940, A Case Study. (1963) (5)
Russian Aviation and Air Power in the Twentieth Century (1998) (5)
From The Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904–1919. Volume III, Jutland and after (May 1916–December 1916). By Arthur J. Marder. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1966. Pp. xxiii, 306. $11.20.) (1967) (4)
Two Roads to War: The French and British Air Arms from Versailles to Dunkirk (2012) (4)
Diary of a Disaster: British Aid to Greece, 1940-1941 (1987) (3)
British military history : a supplement to Robin Higham's Guide to the sources (1988) (3)
British Airways Ltd, 1935–40 (1959) (3)
Anglo-American Rivalry and the Evolution of Canadian Petroleum Policy to 1930 (1981) (3)
The RAF, Small Wars and Insurgencies in the Middle East, 1919-1929 (2012) (3)
Climb to Greatness: The American Aircraft Industry, 1920–1960. By John B. Rae. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1968. Pp. x + 280. $12.50 (1969) (2)
Official Military Historical Offices And Sources (2000) (2)
British Intervention in Greece 1940-1941 : The anatomy of a grand deception (1982) (2)
Why Air Forces Fail (2006) (2)
Origins of Social Democracy in Modern Iran (2002) (2)
Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941 (review) (2003) (1)
Peddler of Death: The Life and Times of Sir Basil Zaharoff. By Donald McCormick. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1965. Pp. ix, 11–255. $5.95.) (1966) (1)
Stalking the U-Boat: USAAF Offensive Antisubmarine Operations in World War II by Max Schoenfeld (1997) (1)
From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904-1919. Volume II, The War Years: To The Eve of Jutland (1966) (1)
Intervention or abstention : the dilemma of American foreign policy (1976) (1)
The Armed Forces of Pakistan (review) (2003) (1)
The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany, 1939-1945. Charles Webster , Noble FranklandAir Bombardment: The Story of Its Development. Robert Saundby (1962) (1)
Canadian Airmen and the First World War: the Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, vol. I, by S.F. Wise (review) (2016) (1)
Australian Air Force since 1911@@@The Man on the Twenty-Dollar Note: Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith (1979) (1)
The Dangerously Neglected--The British Military Intellectuals, 1918-1939 (1965) (1)
The Military System of the Sikhs during the period, 1799-1849. (1964) (1)
The Ploesti Ploy: British Considerations and the Idea of Bombing the Roumanian Oilfields, 1940–41 (1987) (1)
The History of the Second World War: British Official Series (1964) (1)
In the Beginning: The Advent of the Modern Age—Europe in the 1840s (1994) (1)
World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War's Aftermath, with General Themes: A Handbook of Literature and Research (1998) (1)
Professional Note: Air Operations as Guerrilla Warfare (1999) (1)
Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake (review) (2001) (1)
The Army in Victorian Society, by Gwyn Harries-JenkinsThe Army in Victorian Society, by Gwyn Harries-Jenkins. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, and University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1977. 320 pp. $12.50. (1978) (1)
Book Review Essay: In Peace and War: 1699–2003 (2005) (1)
THE TANNER'S PRIVILEGE : A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE TANNER'S STATUS IN DIFFERENT SOCIETIES (1999) (1)
Reflections on the Canadian malaise (2013) (1)
Royal Air Force, 1939-1945. Volume I, The Fight at Odds@@@Volume II, The Fight Avails@@@Volume III, The Fight is Won (1956) (1)
Bold Men, Far Horizons: Pioneer Pilots and Their Flights (1968) (0)
Brian Holden Reid. J. F. C. Fuller: Military Thinker. New York: St. Martin's. 1987. Pp. xiii, 283. $32.50 (1989) (0)
THE ROYAL NAVY'S FREAK SUBMARINE DESIGNS (2009) (0)
A Facet of Military Intellectualism (1969) (0)
Government, Industry, and Technological Change: The SHOT-OAH Program April 1967 (1968) (0)
Secret Weapon: U.S. High-Frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic (review) (1998) (0)
Researching World War I (2003) (0)
An Atlas of the 1971 India-Pakistan War (review) (2005) (0)
Arts and Culture as Profit Centre?: A Martial Arts Lesson for Canada's Cultural Policy Warriors (2002) (0)
Britain and America: Studies in Comparative History, 1760–1970: Englander, David, ed.: New Haven: Yale University Press 317 pp., Publication Date: April 1997 (1998) (0)
Reviews of Books (1981) (0)
Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1605–1865: Koistinen, Paul A. C.: Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 376 pp., Publication Date: December 1996 (1997) (0)
BRITISH AIRWAYS LTD, 1935-1940. IN: AIR TRANSPORT (1996) (0)
The Ambidextrous Historian: Historical Writers and Writing in the American West C. L. Sonnichsen (1983) (0)
Estimates and Actuality: Comparative Costs of British Cross-Channel Airlines, 1918-1924 (1962) (0)
Victorian Military Campaigns: The Sikh Wars; the Third China War, 1860; the Expedition to Abyssinia, 1867-8; the Ashanti Campaign, 1873-4; the South African War, 1880-1; The Egyptian Campaign, 1882; The Reconquest of the Sudan (1968) (0)
Alan Warren. Singapore 1942: Britain’s Greatest Defeat. New York: Hambledon and London; dist. by New York University Press, New York, N. Y. 2002. Pp. ix, 370. $29.95. ISBN 1-85285-328-X. (2003) (0)
Merchant Shipping and the Demands of War. By C. B. A. Behrens. (History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Civil Series.) London: H.M.S.O. and Longmans, Green and Co., 1955. Pp. xix, 494. 35s (1957) (0)
Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Military Failure in War (1991) (0)
The Flying Machine: The Invention of the Aeroplane (1799-1909) . Charles H. Gibbs-Smith. Taplinger, New York, 1966. 384 pp., illus. $14.95. (1966) (0)
The Great Gamble: Nelson at Copenhagen: Pope, Dudley: New York: Simon & Schuster, 579 pp., Publication Date: November 2, 1972 (1973) (0)
The International Commission for Military History--Meeting, Tehran, 6-16 July 1976 (1976) (0)
Flying Across America: The Airline Passenger Experience by Daniel L. Rust (2010) (0)
Military Archives and Military History: A Matter of Perspective (1992) (0)
A Century of British Aeronautics: The Centenary Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1866-1966 (1969) (0)
Stay the Distance: The Life and Times of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham (2015) (0)
Book Review: Military and Scientific Affairs: The Education of a Navy (1966) (0)
Mr. Piper and His Cubs. By Devon Francis. Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 256. $7.95 (1974) (0)
Academic Images: Public and Private@@@The Compleat Academic: An Informal Guide to the Ivory Tower@@@College Professoring, Or, Through Academia with Gun and Camera@@@Miriam at Thirty-Four@@@The Professors@@@The War Between the Tates (1976) (0)
Index to the Royal United Services Institution Journal (1965) (0)
A Case Study of Military-Diplomatic Command:1940-1941 Gracco-German War (1985) (0)
Aeronautical Breakthroughs: Aviation: The Creative Ideas . Oliver Stewart. Praeger, New York, 1966. 244 pp., illus. $7.50. (1967) (0)
G. W. Stephen Brodsky. Gentlemen of the Blade: A Social and Literary History of the British Army Since 1660 . New York: Greenwood Press. 1988. Pp. xxxiii, 187. $39.95. (1989) (0)
Book Review:Time Unguarded: The Ironside Diaries, 1937-1940 Roderick Macleod, Denis Kelly (1964) (0)
The Defense of Fort McHenry (1986) (0)
D. H. An Outline of de Havilland History . By C. Martin Sharp. London: Faber and Faber, 1960. Pp. 419. 42s. (1961) (0)
The Search for a Usable Past: The Interpretation of American Foreign Relations@@@Intervention or Abstention: The Dilemma of American Foreign Policy. (1976) (0)
The International Conference of Military History--Meeting, Washington, D. C.--August 1975 (1975) (0)
Historians, Archivists, Wastage and Planning for War (1991) (0)
Hellenic Wings: An Illustrated History of the H.A.F. and Its Precursors, 1908-1944 (2000) (0)
The Defense of Fort McHenry (review) (2013) (0)
Nelson the Commander: Bennett, Geoffrey: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 322 pp., Publication Date: September 1, 1972 (1973) (0)
Speedbird: The Complete History of BOAC (2013) (0)
Maverick: The Story of Robert Six and Continental Airlines. By Robert J. Serling. New York, Doubleday, 1974. Pp. viii + 351. $8.95 (1975) (0)
The Great Gamble: The Boeing 747. By Laurence S. Kuter. University, Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 1973. Pp. ix + 134. $6.50. (1974) (0)
Power: The Pratt & Whitney Canada Story (1989) (0)
Efficiency Ratings (Ratios) as a Measure of Air Growth (2000) (0)
World War II: A Bibliography of Books in English, 1945-1965. (1971) (0)
Declassified documents quarterly catalog, I (1976) (0)
The Battle of Heligoland Bight 1939: The Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe's Baptism of Fire (2012) (0)
Soviet Aviation and Air Power (2019) (0)
The U.S. Air Service in World War I. Vol. 4: Post-War Review (1980) (0)
Omissi David E.. Air Power and Colonial Control: The Royal Air Force 1919–1939. (Studies in Imperialism.) Manchester: Manchester University Press; distributed by St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y. 1990. Pp. xvi, 260. $79.95. (1992) (0)
WILLIAM H WEBB: FOREIGN WARSHIP CONSTRUCTION AND THE CIVIL WAR 1857–1865[1] (2009) (0)
bernard semmel. Liberalism and Naval Strategy: Ideology, Interest, and Sea Power during the Pax Britannica. Winchester, Mass.: Allen and Unwin. 1986. Pp. xii, 239. Cloth $34.95, paper $14.95 (1988) (0)
Soviet Aviation and Air Power: A Historical Review (1979) (0)
Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 16051865 (1997) (0)
The Military Intellectuals in Britain: 1918-1939 (1967) (0)
Brian Bond. Liddell Hart: A Study of His Military Thought. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 1977. Pp. x, 289. $14.95 (1978) (0)
Actas no. 2 : the Washington Meeting, August 1975 (1977) (0)
The Story of the Pakistan Air Force, 1988-1998: A Battle against Odds (2002) (0)
The compleat academic : an informal guide to the ivory tower (1974) (0)
Delta: The History of an Airline. By W. David Lewis and Wesley Phillips Newton. Athens, The University of Georgia Press, 1979. Pp. viii + 520. $15.00 (1979) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Strategic Bombing in World War Two: The Story of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. By David Maclsaac. (New York: Garland, 1976. xi + 231 pp. Charts, notes, select bibliography, and index. $12.50.) (1978) (0)
... That Nothing Failed Them: Testing Aeroplanes in War@@@Operational Research in the Royal Air Force@@@The Design and Development of Weapons: Studies in Government and Industrial Organization (1965) (0)
Benedict Arnold: The Dark Eagle: Boylan, Brian Richard: New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 266 pp., Publication Date: July 16, 1973 (1973) (0)
First Across! The U. S. Navy's Transatlantic Flight of 1919. By Richard K. Smith. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1973. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, sources, and index. $10.00.) (1974) (0)
Trenchard: Man of Vision. Andrew Boyle (1963) (0)
Aeronautical History — Some Offbeat British Archives (2010) (0)
Academic Writer's Guide to Periodicals, I, Latin American Studies. (1972) (0)
The Sky's the Limit: a History of the U.S. Airlines. By Arch Whitehouse. New York: Macmillan, 1971. Pp. xiii + 353. $8.95 (1971) (0)

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