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Members of the Centre::  Gary Sheffield

Professor Gary Sheffield will be taking up the Chair of War Studies at the University of Birmingham in October 2006. He is currently Professor of Modern History at King’s College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, where he is also Land Warfare Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course. From 1985 to 1999 he taught in the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Educated at the University of Leeds and King’s College London, he is also a member of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

He has published widely on military history. A leading member of the ‘revisionist’ school of historians of the First World War, his latest book is Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-18, co-edited with John Bourne (2005). Other books include the best-selling Forgotten Victory: The First World War - Myths and Realities (2001) and The Somme (2003). In 2003 he shared the Templer Prize for Military History for an article on the Australians on the Somme. He frequently broadcasts on television and radio, and writes for a variety of newspapers and magazines.

Gary Sheffield is currently writing a biography of Douglas Haig, and working on Citizen Army, a book on the experience of the ordinary British and Commonwealth soldier in the Second World War. A Londoner by origin, he is married with two teenagers, lives in Oxfordshire, and supports Arsenal.

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