Kenneth Macksey

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Kenneth Macksey (July 1, 1923 - November 30, 2005) was a British author and historian who specialized in military history and military biography, particularly of World War II. Macksey served in World War II under the command of Percy Hobart, later writing the (authoritative) biography that leader. Additionally, Macksey wrote two volumes of alternative history, one dealing with the (successful) invasion of England by Germany in 1940 (Operation Sea Lion, and the other describing a NATO - Warsaw Pact clash in the late 1980s. The latter book was done under contract to the Canadian Forces and features Canadians as the primary protagonists.

In Macksey's "Guderian - Panzer General", he also refutes manipulations of evidence by historian Sir Basil Liddell-Hart regarding Hart's influence on the development of German Doctrine in the years leading up to 1939.

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• Invasion - the alternate history of the German invasion of England July 1940, Kenneth Macksey, Wren's Park Publishing, Ashcroft, 2001 ISBN 0-905778-79-0
• Guderian - Panzer General, Kenneth Macksey
• Kesselring - Master Strategist of World War II, Kenneth Macksey
• "Armored Crusader - Major General Sir Percy Hobart", Kenneth Macksey
• "Why the Germans Lose at War", Kenneth Macksey
• "Military Errors of World War II", Kenneth Macksey
• "Rommel - Battles and Campaigns", Kenneth Macksey