Corelli Barnett

Corelli Douglas Barnett , CBE (born June 18, 1927 in Norbury , County Borough of Croydon ) is a British military historian who also worked on the decline of Britain as an industrial nation.

Barnett attended Whitgift Middle School in Croydon , renamed the Trinity School of John Whitgift in 1954 . He studied history at Exeter College , Oxford and graduated in 1954 with a Magister Artium .

He is a fellow at Churchill College , Cambridge . From 1977 to 1995 he was director of the Churchill Archives Center . He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society . From 1973 to 1985 he was a member of the Council of the Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies. He was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1997.

Works

Works

• The Hump Organization (1957)
• The Channel Tunnel (with Humphrey Slater / 1958)
• The Desert Generals (1960). A study of O'Connor, Alan Cunningham, Ritchie, Auchinleck and Montgomery.
• The Swordbearers: Supreme Command in the First World War (1963). A study of Moltke , Jellicoe , Pétain and Ludendorff .
• The Battle of El Alamein (1964)
• Britain and Her Army, 1509-1970 (1970)
• The Collapse of British Power (1972)
• The First Churchill: Marlborough , Soldier and Statesman (1974)
• Strategy and Society (1976)
• Human Factor and British Industrial Decline: An Historical Perspective (1977)
• Bonaparte (1978)
• The Great War (1979)
• The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation (1986)
• Engage the Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War (1991)
• The Lost Victory: British Dreams and British Realities, 1945-50 (1995)
• The Verdict of Peace: Britain between her Yesterday and the Future (2001)
• Post-conquest Civil Affairs: Comparing War's End in Iraq and in Germany (2005)

Internet

• The Wasting of Britain's Marshall Aid BBC History, June 17, 2005