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Prof Gary Sheffield BA, MA, PhD |
Vice-President
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Professor Gary Sheffield was appointed to the newly-created Chair of War Studies at the University of Birmingham in 2006. Previously he was Professor of Modern History at King’s College London, a job held concurrently with a post at the Joint Services Command and Staff College : Land Warfare Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course (the British military’s senior operational course). He started his career at the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Educated at the University of Leeds (BA, MA) and King’s College London (Ph D), he also a member of Wolfson College , Oxford ; Churchill College , Cambridge ; and Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi , USA . Professor Sheffield is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, and is Regimental Historian of The Rifles and as such sits on the Regimental Advisory Board.
He has written widely on twentieth century military history and defence issues. His most recent publications are Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-18 (paperback edition 2006) edited with John Bourne); The Somme paperback edition, 2004) and Forgotten Victory: The First World War – Myths and Realities (paperback edition, 2002). A new military biography of Douglas Haig will be published by HarperCollins in 2010, and he is writing a book on the experience of the British soldier in the Second World War. In 2003, he shared the Templer Medal for Military Literature for his contribution to The British General Staff: Innovation and Reform (2002). He has been a member of the WFA since 1986.
He regularly broadcasts on radio and television, and writer for the press. Gary Sheffield is married with two teenagers, lives in Oxfordshire, is an active member of his local Anglican church, and supports Arsenal. |
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