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Geoffrey Best

Geoffrey Best’s Churchill and War was published in 2005. He taught history at Sussex for many years.

Selected bibliography

  • Churchill and War (2005)
  • Churchill: A Study in Greatness (2001)
  • War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870 (1998)
  • War and Law Since 1945 (1997)
  • Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 (1985)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content So long as you drub the foe · 11 May 2006

  • Military Identities: The Regimental System, The British Army and The British People c.1870-2000 by David French  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Hooked Trout · 2 June 2005

  • Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain’s Road to War by Ian Kershaw

subscriber-only content Momentous Conjuncture · 18 March 2004

  • Prof: The Life of Frederick Lindemann by Adrian Fort

subscriber-only content Heiling Hitler · 21 June 2001

  • The ‘Times’ and Appeasement: The Journals of A.L. Kennedy 1932-39 edited by Gordon Martel
  • Churchill and Appeasement by R.A.C. Parker

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Educating the Blimps · 10 June 1999

  • Alchemist of War: The Life of Basil Liddell Hart by Alex Danchev
  • Studies in British Military Thought: Debates with Fuller and Liddell Hart by Brian Holden Reid

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