Cyril Falls

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Cyril Bentham Falls (1888 - 1971) was an English military historian.

Cyril Falls was military officer, historian, and writer. He was the Chichele Professor of Military History at All Souls, Oxford University from 1909 to 1923.

He served in World War I reaching the rank of Captain in the British army (36th Ulster Division) After the war he helped write several of the official British military histories of the war. Later he wrote both specialist detailed histories as well as histories intended for the normal reader. He was an expert on the history of World War I.

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• The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division (1921)
• Military Operations - Egypt and Palestine Vol I. From the outbreak of war with Germany to June 1917 (with Sir George MacMunn) (London, 1928) (Official History)
• Military Operations - Egypt and Palestine: Vol II. From June 1917 to the end of the War (London, 1928) (Official History)
• Military Operations - Macedonia: Vol I. From the Outbreak of War to the Spring of 1917 (London, 1933) (Official History)
• Military Operations - Macedonia: Vol II. From the Spring of 1917 to the end of the war (London, 1933) (Official History)
• Marshal Foch (London 1939)
• Military Operations - France and Belgium: Vol I. 1917, The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the Battle of Arras (London, 1940) (Official History)
• The Nature of Modern Warfare (1941)
• The Second World War : a short history (1948)
• A Hundred Years of War (1953)
• The Great War (1961) ISBN 0-399-50100-2
• The Art of War: from the Age of Napoleon to the Present Day (1961)
• Armageddon, 1918 (1964) ISBN 0-933852-05-3
• Caporetto 1917 (1966)
• Elizabeth's Irish Wars (1970) ISBN 0-389-03961-6
• Great Military Battles (ed.) (1971) ISBN 0-600-01652-8
• The Birth of Ulster (1973) ISBN 0-416-78210-8
• Rudyard Kipling: A Critical Study (London, ?)