Christopher Duffy

Christopher Duffy (* 1936 ) is a British historian .

Life

Duffy studied history at Balliol College , Oxford , where he graduated with a PhD in 1961 . He then worked as a lecturer at the Sandhurst Military Academy and at the College of the British General Staff . Among other things, he was Secretary General of the British Commission for Military History and Vice President of the Military History Society of Ireland . From 1996 to 2001 he taught military history at De Montfort University in Leicester . Since then he has lived as a freelance writer.

Duffy is primarily concerned with military history and is regarded in the English-speaking world as a proven expert in the field of German, Prussian and Austrian war history since the 18th century. He himself speaks six languages ​​fluently. He was best known in Germany for his work on the Seven Years' War and in particular Frederick the Great , which he self-ironically called a "product of the centuries-old British obsession with the most unbritish of all world historical personalities".

Publications (selection)

• Field Marshal Browne . Irish emigrant, imperial military leader, opponent of Frederick II of Prussia ("The Wild Goose and the Eagle. A Life of Marshal Von Browne, 17051757"). Herold-Verlag, Vienna 1966.
• Frederick the Great. The biography (" Frederick the Great. A military life "). Albatros-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-491-96026-6 (former title Friedrich the Great. A Soldier's Life ).
• Maria Theresia and her army ("The army of Maria Theresia. The armed forces of imperial Austria, 1740-1780"). Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-613-03111-1 .
• The military experience in the age of reason . Routledge & Paul, London 1987, ISBN 0-7102-1024-8 .
• The Battle of Austerlitz . Napoleon's greatest victory ("Austerlitz 1805"). Heyne, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-453-48058-9 .
• Seven years of war. 1756-1763; the army of Maria Theresa ("Austrian Army in the Seven Years War"). OBV & HPT, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-209-04044-3 .
• Siege warfare . Routledge, London 1979/85 (2 vol.).

1. The fortress in the early modern world. 1440-1660 . New edition. 1979, ISBN 0-415-14649-6 .
2. The fortress in the age of Vauban and Fréderick the Great . 1985, ISBN 0-7100-9648-8 .

• The storm on the empire. The advance of the Red Army in 1945 (" Red storm on the Reich. The Soviet march on Germany, 1945 "). Langen Müller, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7844-2500-3 .
• Through German eyes. The British and the Somme 1916 . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2006, ISBN 978-0-297-84689-5 .
• The 45. Bonnie Prince Charles and the untold story of the Jacobite rising . Cassell, London 2003, ISBN 0-304-35525-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christopher Duffy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author page on Emperor's Press
• Author page on Orion Books

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Duffy 2001, p. 7