Andrew Gordon (marine historian)

Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon (born July 23, 1951 ) is a British naval historian .

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Gordon graduated from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth with a bachelor's degree (BSc Econ) in international politics in 1977 and received a PhD in military history from King's College London in 1983 . The subject of the dissertation was the procurement policy of the British Admiralty in the 1930s (subject of his book published in 1988). He is a Naval History Reader at the Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) in Shrivenham . He is a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy Reserve.

He also taught at the US Naval Academy (2007 to 2009, USNA Class of 1967 Chair in Naval History) and with the Royal Australian Navy .

He deals in particular with the British navy in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of its naval strategy up to the present day and its relationship to civilian authorities, especially in terms of procurement policy. He is best known for his book on the Battle of the Skagerrak .

In 1997 he received the first Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature for his book on British naval warfare in the Battle of the Skagerrak, for which he also received the 1997 History Today Longman Book of the Year Prize.

Gordon is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society . He is Councellor of the Navy Records Society and Honorary Fellow of the Center for Maritime Historical Studies at Exeter University, as well as advisor on the revision of Marine Doctrine and Fighting Instructions (BR 1806) of the Royal Navy. He regularly lectures on naval warfare at the Maritime Warfare Center on HMS Dryad.

Fonts

• British Sea power and Procurement between the Wars: a Reappraisal of Rearmament, Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1988.
• The Rules of the Game: Jutland and the British Naval Command, London, Murray 1996.

Web links

• Homepage
• Biography at the US Naval Academy
• Literature by and about Andrew Gordon in the WorldCat bibliographic database