Michael Barthorp

Michael Barthorp is a British historian and writer, specialising in military history and military uniforms. He lives in the Channel Islands.

Barthorp attended Wellington Collegeuntil the end of World War II. In September 1945, he joined the Rifle Brigade under Universal Conscription and was demobilised in 1958. After some time with the Royal Hampshire Territorials, he exchanged for a regular commission in the Northamptonshire Regiment in which his family had served for three generations.

Major Barthorp retired from service in 1968 to become a military historian and writer.

He is a member of the Victorian Military Society, and has contributed to their magazine Soldiers of the Queen.

Bibliography

(1979) Indian Infantry Regiments, 1860-1914, Osprey ISBN 0-85045-307-0
(1979) To Face the Daring Māori. Hodder and Stoughton.
(1982) British Military Uniforms Since 1660, Poole: New Orchard Editions, ISBN 1-85079-009-4
(1982) The Jacobite Rebellions, 1689-1745, London: Osprey Publishing, ISBN 0-85045-432-8
(1984) War on the Nile: Britain, Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-1898, London: Blandford Press
(1987) The Anglo-Boer Wars, Blandford, ISBN 0-7137-1658-4
(1989) The Old Contemptibles UK: Osprey Publishing ISBN 978-0-85045-898-5
(1990) Wellington's Generals, UK: Osprey Publishing ISBN 978-0-85045-299-0
(1992) Napoleon's Egyptian Campaigns, 1798–1801, UK: Osprey Publishing ISBN 978-0-85045-126-9
(1994) The British Troops in the Indian Mutiny, 1857–59, UK: Osprey Publishing ISBN 978-1-85532-369-8
(2000) Queen Victoria's Commanders, UK: Osprey Publishing ISBN 978-1-84176-054-4
(2002) The Zulu War: Isandhlwana to Ulundi Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 0-304-36270-0

External links

Osprey Publishing author page

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