Michael Howard (historian)
Professor Sir Michael Eliot Howard, KBE, OM, CH (November 29, 1922-) is a retired British military historian, formerly of Oxford University. An former British Army officer, Howard fought in the Italian campaign during World War Two with the Coldstream Guards. He is best known for expanding military history beyond the traditional campaigns and battles accounts to include wider discussions about the sociological significance of war. In his account of the Franco-German War of 1870-71, Howard looked at how the Prussian and French armies reflected the social structure of the two nations. He was knighted in 1986 and further honoured in 2002 with the Companion of Honour and in 2005 with the Order of Merit
Sir Michael is currently president emeritus of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a fellow of the British Academy.
Work
- co-written with John Sparrow The Coldstream Guards, 1920-1946, 1951.
- Disengagement in Europe, 1958.
- The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France, 1870-1871, 1961.
- Lord Haldane and the Territorial Army, 1967.
- The Mediterranean Strategy in the Second World War, 1967.
- Studies in War and Peace, 1970.
- The Continental Commitment: The Dilemma of British Defence Policy in the Era of Two World Wars, 1972.
- War in European History, 1976.
- Clausewitz on War, 1977.
- Soliders and Governments: Nine Studies in Civil Military Relations, 1978.
- War and the Liberal Conscience, 1978.
- Restraints on War: Studies in the Limitation of Armed Conflict, 1979 edited by M.E Howard.
- Clausewitz, 1983.
- British Intelligence in the Second World War, 1990.
- Strategic Deception in World War II, 1990.
- The Lessons of History, 1991.
- The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World, edited by M.E Howard, George Anderepoulous and Mark Schulman.
Reference
- Freedman, Lawrence; Hayes, Paul & O'Neil, Robert War, Strategy and International Politics: Essays in Honour of Sir Michael Howard, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Skaggs, David Curtis "Michael Howard and the Dimensions Of Military History" pages 179-183 from Military Affairs, Volume 49, 1985.