Brian Bond
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Brian James Bond is a British military historian and professor emeritus of military history
at King's College London
.
and raised in Buckinghamshire where his father was the gardener for the military historian Sir Basil Liddell Hart
. Liddell Hart took a great interest in the boy and encouraged his academic interests. From 1952 to 1954, Bond served in the Royal Artillery
, becoming a second lieutenant
in the British Army
. In 1959, he took an honours degree in history at Worcester College, Oxford
and then went on to take his Master of Arts degree in war studies at King's College London
in 1962. He married Madeleine Joyce Carr in 1962.
. In 1962 he moved to become lecturer in history at the University of Liverpool
, where he remained for four years. In 1966, he became lecturer in war studies at King's College London
. He was promoted to reader in war studies in 1978, professor of military history in 1986, and professor emeritus in 2001.
Bond served as visiting professor at the University of Western Ontario
in 1972-73 and was visiting lecturer at the U.S. Naval War College
in 1972-74. He was made a Fellow of King's College London
in 1996 and served as Liddell Hart Lecturer. He was visiting fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford
in 1992-93 and, in 2000, was visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford
and Lees Knowles Lecturer at Cambridge University.
Bond served as a member of council of the Society for Army Historical Research
and as President of the British Commission for Military History.
Military history
Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....
at King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
.
Early life and education
The son of Edward Herbert Bond and his wife, Olive Bessie Sartin, Bond was born in Marlow, BuckinghamshireMarlow, Buckinghamshire
Marlow is a town and civil parish within Wycombe district in south Buckinghamshire, England...
and raised in Buckinghamshire where his father was the gardener for the military historian Sir Basil Liddell Hart
Basil Liddell Hart
Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart , usually known before his knighthood as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was an English soldier, military historian and leading inter-war theorist.-Life and career:...
. Liddell Hart took a great interest in the boy and encouraged his academic interests. From 1952 to 1954, Bond served in the Royal Artillery
Royal Artillery
The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery , is the artillery arm of the British Army. Despite its name, it comprises a number of regiments.-History:...
, becoming a second lieutenant
Second Lieutenant
Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces.- United Kingdom and Commonwealth :The rank second lieutenant was introduced throughout the British Army in 1871 to replace the rank of ensign , although it had long been used in the Royal Artillery, Royal...
in the British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
. In 1959, he took an honours degree in history at Worcester College, Oxford
Worcester College, Oxford
Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in the eighteenth century, but its predecessor on the same site had been an institution of learning since the late thirteenth century...
and then went on to take his Master of Arts degree in war studies at King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
in 1962. He married Madeleine Joyce Carr in 1962.
Academic career
Bond's first academic post in 1961 was as lecturer in history at the University of ExeterUniversity of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....
. In 1962 he moved to become lecturer in history at the University of Liverpool
University of Liverpool
The University of Liverpool is a teaching and research university in the city of Liverpool, England. It is a member of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities and the N8 Group for research collaboration. Founded in 1881 , it is also one of the six original "red brick" civic...
, where he remained for four years. In 1966, he became lecturer in war studies at King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
. He was promoted to reader in war studies in 1978, professor of military history in 1986, and professor emeritus in 2001.
Bond served as visiting professor at the University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus covers of land, with the Thames River cutting through the eastern portion of the main campus. Western administers its programs through 12 different faculties and...
in 1972-73 and was visiting lecturer at the U.S. Naval War College
Naval War College
The Naval War College is an education and research institution of the United States Navy that specializes in developing ideas for naval warfare and passing them along to officers of the Navy. The college is located on the grounds of Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island...
in 1972-74. He was made a Fellow of King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
in 1996 and served as Liddell Hart Lecturer. He was visiting fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford
Brasenose College, Oxford
Brasenose College, originally Brazen Nose College , is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. As of 2006, it has an estimated financial endowment of £98m...
in 1992-93 and, in 2000, was visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford
All Souls College, Oxford
The Warden and the College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford or All Souls College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England....
and Lees Knowles Lecturer at Cambridge University.
Bond served as a member of council of the Society for Army Historical Research
Society for Army Historical Research
The Society for Army Historical Research was founded in 1921 to foster "interest in the history and traditions of British and Commonwealth armies, and to encourage research in these fields." It is one of the oldest societies of its kind. Past members include notable British Field Marshals Wavell,...
and as President of the British Commission for Military History.
Published works
- Victorian military campaigns edited by Brian Bond. London : Hutchinson, [1967].
- Mapledurham HouseMapledurham HouseMapledurham House is an Elizabethan stately home located in the civil parish of Mapledurham in the English county of Oxfordshire.-History and architecture:...
, the historic home of the Blount family: official guide : history and description of contents. Derby: English Life Publications, 1968.
- The Victorian army and the Staff College, 1854–1914, London : Eyre Methuen, 1972.
- Chief of staff : the diaries of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Pownall, edited by Brian Bond. London: Leo Cooper, 1972-1974.
- France and Belgium, 1939-1940 London : Davis-Poynter, 1975; Second edition under the title Britain, France and Belgium, 1939-1940 Oxford: Brassey's, 1990.
- War and society: a yearbook of military history edited by Brian Bond and Ian Roy. 2 volumes. London: Croom Helm, 1975–1977; New York: Holmes & Meier, 1975–1977.
- Liddell HartBasil Liddell HartSir Basil Henry Liddell Hart , usually known before his knighthood as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was an English soldier, military historian and leading inter-war theorist.-Life and career:...
: a study of his military thought. London: Cassell, 1977; New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1977; **Aldershot: Gregg Revivals in association with Department of War Studies, King's College London, 1991.
- British military policy between the two world wars, Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1980
- War and society in Europe, 1870-1970 [Leicester]: Leicester University Press, in association with Fontana Paperbacks, 1983; London: Fontana Paperbacks, 1984; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983; Stroud: Sutton, 1998.
- Staff officer: the diaries of Walter Guinness (first Lord Moyne)Walter Guinness, 1st Baron MoyneWalter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne DSO & Bar PC was a Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. He served as the British minister of state in the Middle East until November 1944, when he was assassinated by the militant Jewish Zionist group Lehi...
, 1914–1918, edited by Brian Bond and Simon Robbins. London: Leo Cooper, 1987.
- The First World War and British military history, edited by Brian Bond. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
- Fallen stars: eleven studies of twentieth century military disasters, edited by Brian Bond. London : Brassey's (UK), 1991.
- The pursuit of victory: from Napoleon to Saddam HusseinSaddam HusseinSaddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 1998.
- The nature of future conflict: implications for force development by Brian Holden Reid ... [et al.]; edited by Brian Bond and Mungo Melvin. The Occasional Papers. Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, no. 36. Camberley: Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, 1998.
- Look to your front: studies in the First World War by the British Commission for Military History; Brian Bond et al. Staplehurst : Spellmount, 1999.
- HaigDouglas Haig, 1st Earl HaigField Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC, was a British senior officer during World War I. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force from 1915 to the end of the War...
: a reappraisal 70 years on, edited by Brian Bond and Nigel Cave. London: Leo Cooper, 1999.
- HaigDouglas Haig, 1st Earl HaigField Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC, was a British senior officer during World War I. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force from 1915 to the end of the War...
: a reappraisal 80 years on, edited by Brian Bond and Nigel Cave. Barnsley, Pen and Sword Military, 2009.
- The battle of France and Flanders 1940: sixty years on, edited by Brian Bond and Michael D. Taylor. Barnsley : Leo Cooper, 2001.
- The unquiet Western Front: Britain's role in literature and history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- The British General Staff: reform and innovation c.1890-1939, edited by David French and Brian Holden Reid in honour of: Brian Bond. London : Frank Cass, 2002.
- British and Japanese military leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941–1945, edited by Brian Bond and Kyoichi Tachikawa. London : Frank Cass, 2004.
- The war memoirs of Earl StanhopeJames Stanhope, 7th Earl StanhopeJames Richard Stanhope, 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 7th Earl Stanhope KG, DSO, MC, PC , styled Viscount Mahon until 1905, and known as The Earl Stanhope from 1905 until 1967, was a British Conservative politician.-Background:Stanhope was the eldest son of Arthur Stanhope, 6th Earl Stanhope, and...
, General Staff Officer in France, 1914–1918 by Lieutenant Colonel Earl Stanhope, edited by Brian Bond. Brighton: Tom Donovan Editions, 2006.