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B. H. Liddell Hart
British historian and theoretician of war (1895-1970)
Len Deighton
English writer (1929–2026)
Martin Gilbert
English historian (1936-2015)
Richard Overy
British historian
Alistair Horne
British writer and historian (1925-2017)
Ewen Montagu
British intelligence analyst (1901–1985)
John Hackett
Australian-born British soldier, painter and author (1910–1997)
Nikolai Tolstoy
British-born Russian noble and historian
Julian Thompson
Royal Marines general
Edwin Alderson
British and Canadian First World War general (1859–1927)
Frederick Barton Maurice
British Army general and writer (1871–1951)
Henry Lloyd
Welsh army officer and military writer (1720–1783)
Rupert Smith
British Army general
Hew Strachan
British historian
Richard Holmes
military historian and TV presenter (1946-2011)
Bill Gunston
author
Stuart Cloete
South African writer (1897-1976)
Michael Carver, Baron Carver
British field marshal (1915-2001)
Sir Charles Knowles, 2nd Baronet
officer of the British Royal Navy (1754-1831)
Louis Nolan
British army officer and casualty of the Crimean War
Peter H. Wilson
British historian (born 1963)
Anthony Farrar-Hockley
British Army general
Edward Bruce Hamley
British general, military writer and politician (1824-1893)
Cyril Falls
British military historian
William Beatty
British naval surgeon
James John McLeod Innes
Scottish military officer (1830–1907); recipient of the Victoria Cross
David Armine Howarth
Royal Navy officer
Gordon Campbell
Recipient of the Victoria Cross (1886-1953)
Mark Kerr
Royal Navy Admiral and Royal Air Force Major-General (1864-1944)
Charles Cornwallis Chesney
British army officer and military writer
Charles Pasley
British Army officer
George Francis Robert Henderson
Jersey historian (1854–1903)
Martin Windrow
British historian
Kenneth Macksey
British author and historian (1923–2005)
Patrick Leonard MacDougall
British General and author (1819-1894)