Brian Holden-Reid

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Brian Holden-Reid (* 1952 ) is a British military historian and modern day historian specializing in American history. He is a professor at King's College London ( Department of War Studies ).

Life

Holden-Reid studied at the University of Hull , the University of Sussex and the University of London .

He has taught at the Polytechnic of North London and City University London . From 1982 he was Senior Lecturer and later Chair at the Department of War Studies at King's College London. From 2001 to 2007 he headed the Department of War Studies and in 2007 he became a Fellow of King's College (FCK). In 2012 he was a guest speaker at the Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives .

He also graduated from Staff College Camberley in the British Army and received an Honorary Degree from the School of Advanced Military Studies at United States Command and General Staff College , Fort Leavenworth . He taught from 1987 to 1997 as Resident Historian at Staff College in Camberley.

Holden-Reid is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society , the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), whose RUSI Journal he edited from 1984 to 1987 and whose Defense Studies series he edited at Macmillan. Holden-Reid is the publisher of the Military History and Policy series at Frank Cass and John Gooch .

As a historian, he dealt with the American Civil War , which he portrayed in connection with the European wars of the same time. He is also concerned with British and American military theory in the 20th century, especially the work of John Frederick Charles Fuller and Basil Liddell Hart .

For 2019 he was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize .

Fonts (selection)

as an author
  • The American civil war .
    • German: The American Civil War and the European Wars of Unification . Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89488-130-5 .
  • The American Civil War and the wars of the nineteenth century (= History of warfare). Harper Collins, New York 2006, ISBN 0-06-085120-1
  • America's Civil War. The operational battlefield, 1861-1863 . Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY 2008, ISBN 978-1-5910-2605-1 .
  • The Origins of the American Civil War (= Origins of Modern War). Longman, London 1996, ISBN 0-582-49177-0 .
  • JFC Fuller . Military thinker (= Studies in military and strategic history). Macmillan, London 1987, ISBN 0-333-41916-2 .
  • Robert E. Lee . Icon for a nation . Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London 2005, ISBN 0-2978-4699-X .
  • Studies in British military thought. Debates with Fuller and Liddell Hart . Greenhill, London 1999, ISBN 1-85367-306-4 .
as editor
  • together with John White: American Studies. Essays in Honor of Marcus Cunliffe . Macmillan, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-349-21452-5 (EA London 1991)
  • together with David French: The British General Staff. Reform and innovation c. 1890-1939 (= Military history and policy; 10). Frank Cass, London 1993, ISBN 0-203-01808-7 .
  • together with Susan Mary-Grant: The American Civil War. Explorations and reconsiderations . Longman, New York 2000, ISBN 0-5823-1835-1 (preface by James Macpherson ).
  • Military power. Land warfare in theory and practice . Frank Cass, London 1997, ISBN 0-7146-4768-3 .
  • The science of war. Back to first principles (= The operational level of war). Routledge, London 1993, ISBN 0-415-07995-0 .
  • together with Michael Dewar: Military strategy in a changing Europe. Towards the twenty-first century . Brassey's, London 1991, ISBN 0-08-037706-8 .
  • together with Carlo Schaerf and David Carlton: New technologies and the arms race (= Studies in disarmament and conflicts). St. Martin's Press, New York 1989, ISBN 1-3491-0615-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The first edition appeared in 1999 under the title The American civil war and the wars of industrial revolution .
  2. ↑ Later editions appeared under the title Americana. Essays in Memory of Marcus Cunliffe .
  3. ↑ The second edition appeared in 2010 under the title Themes of the American Civil War. The War between the States .
  4. ↑ Also published as The Journal of strategic studies , Vol. 19, Issue 4.

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personal data
SURNAME Holden-Reid, Brian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British military historian and modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1952