Brian Bond

Brian Bond (born April 17, 1936 in Medmenham near Marlow (Buckinghamshire) ) is a British military historian. He was a professor at King's College London .

Bond grew up in Buckinghamshire . 1954 to 1956 he was at the Royal Artillery last as a second lieutenant. He studied history at Oxford University (Worcester College) from 1956 , but was not admitted to more advanced studies because, according to his tutor, he was too heavily involved in sports (rugby, football, cricket). In 1958 he came into contact with the military historian Basil Liddell Hart when he moved to Bond's home village of Medmenham and promoted him. He continued his studies at King's College London with a Masters degree in military history from Michael Howard in 1962. He married that same year. In 1961 he became a lecturer at the University of Exeter , in 1962 at the University of Liverpool and in 1966 at King's College London, where he became reader in 1978 and professor in 1986. In 1996 he became a Fellow of King's College, where he was Liddell Hart Lecturer . In 2001 he retired.

1972 to 1974 he was visiting professor at the US Naval War College and 1992/93 at Brasenose College, Oxford University. In 1997 he was a guest speaker at the Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives at King's College London . In 2000 he was Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and Lees Knowles Lecturer at Cambridge University . He was President of the British Commission for Military History.

He dealt mainly with the British military history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Fonts

• The Victorian army and the Staff College, 1854-1914, London: Eyre Methuen, 1972.
• France and Belgium, 1939-1940 London: Davis-Poynter, 1975, 2nd edition as: Britain, France and Belgium, 1939-1940 Oxford: Brassey's, 1990.
• Liddell Hart : a study of his military thought . London: Cassell, 1977; New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1977
• British military policy between the two world wars, Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980
• War and society in Europe, 1870-1970 , Leicester University Press, Fontana Paperbacks, 1983, Stroud: Sutton, 1998.
• The pursuit of victory: from Napoleon to Saddam Hussein , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 1998.
• with others: Look to your front: studies in the First World War , British Commission for Military History; Staplehurst: Spellmount, 1999.
• The unquiet Western Front: Britain's role in literature and history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• The First World War and British military history, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
• Publisher: Victorian military campaigns London: Hutchinson, 1967
• Publisher chief of staff: the diaries of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Pownall , London: Leo Cooper, 1972-1974.
• Editor with Ian Roy: War and society: a yearbook of military history , 2 volumes, London: Croom Helm, 1975–1977; New York: Holmes & Meier, 1975-1977.
• Editor with Simon Robbins: Staff officer: the diaries of Walter Guinness (first Lord Moyne) , 1914–1918, London: Leo Cooper, 1987.
• Editor: Fallen stars: eleven studies of twentieth century military disasters, edited by Brian Bond. London: Brassey's (UK), 1991.
• Editor with Nigel Cave: Haig: a reappraisal 70 years on , London: Leo Cooper, 1999.
• Editor with Nigel Cave: Haig: a reappraisal 80 years on , Barnsley, Pen and Sword Military, 2009.
• Editor with Michael D. Taylor: The battle of France and Flanders 1940: sixty years on , Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2001.
• Publisher David French and Brian Holden Reid : The British General Staff: reform and innovation c.1890-1939 , London: Frank Cass., 2002
• Editor with Kyoichi Tachikawa: British and Japanese military leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941–1945, London: Frank Cass, 2004.
• Published by: Lieutenant Colonel Earl Stanhope The war memoirs of Earl Stanhope , General Staff Officer in France, 1914–1918 , Brighton: Tom Donovan Editions, 2006.

literature

• Brian Holden Reid Introduction: Brian Bond. Military Historian , in David French, Brian Holden Reid, Brian Bond The British General Staff: reform and innovation c.1890-1939 , London: Frank Cass, 2002.

Web links

• Brian Bond A Victory worse than a Defeat? British Interpretations of the First World War , King's College 1997