Bruce Quarrie

Bruce Quarrie (1947 in London – September 4, 2004) was an English author and historian. He studied English at Peterhouse College, Cambridge University and graduated with honours in 1968. He became a journalist with the Financial Times and then in 1972 joined Patrick Stephens Limited, a Cambridge specialist publisher, as editor of Airfix magazine, which PSL produced. He wrote the first of his many books about wargaming in 1974 and in 1986 he became a (prolific) full-time writer on this and military subjects generally. He wrote over 40 titles, mainly on Second World War history, and edited many more.

Quarrie had a reputation for painstaking research and attention to detail, reflected in the high prices many of his out-of-print works still fetch on the second-hand market. His definitive Encyclopedia of the German Army was even published in German. Historian and novelist Len Deighton described him as "one of our most meticulous and well-informed historians."

Bruce Quarrie was an active wargamer and a member of clubs in, successively, north-east London, Cambridge, and Wellingborough. His 1974 book Napoleonic Wargaming, based on the north-east London club's house rules, brought the hobby to wide attention. Quarrie owned a large miniature army of wargames figures, including the entire Westphalian army of the Napoleonic era, scaled down in size as set out in his own published rules.

He was married with two daughters, and lived in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. and has 4 grandsons.

Partial list of Bruce Quarrie's works