Hew Strachan
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Professor Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL, FRSE is a military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the history of the First World War.
Commissioned by Oxford University Press to write a history of the First World War to replace C.R.M.F Cruttwell's one-volume A History of the First World War, Strachan completed the first of three volumes, The First World War: Volume 1: To arms in 2001 to wide acclaim and is acknowledged as one of the world's authorities on the subject.
Professor Strachan is Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls, Oxford University. He was Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow from 1992 to 2000.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Historical Society. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Tweeddale in 2006.
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- European armies and the conduct of war (London, 1983) ISBN 0-415-07863-6
- Wellington's legacy: The reform of the British Army 1830-54 (Manchester, 1984) ISBN 0-7190-0994-4
- From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, technology and the British Army (Cambridge, 1985) ISBN 0-521-30439-3
- The politics of the British Army (Oxford, 1997) ISBN 0-19-820670-4
- The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (ed.) (Oxford, 1998) ISBN 0-19-820614-3
- The First World War: Volume 1: To arms (Oxford, 2001) ISBN 0-19-926191-1
