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Hew Strachan

ヒュー・ストラチャン

Hew Strachan

Aliases: Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1949-09-01 （Edinburgh, Scotland）
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
Edinburgh, Scotland → Cambridge, England → Glasgow, Scotland → Oxford, England → St Andrews, Scotland

Career

Occupations
Military historian, Author, Professor
Active Years
1975-2024
Affiliations
University of Glasgow, All Souls College, Oxford, University of St Andrews, Royal Society of Edinburgh
Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)

Education

Rugby School
Period: 1960年代-1968
Year of Graduation: 1968
Country: United Kingdom
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
History
Degree: BA
Period: 1968-1971
Year of Graduation: 1971
Country: United Kingdom
Proceeded to MA in 1975

Awards

Templer Medal
1986
Work: From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, Technology and the British Army
Organization: Society for Army Historical Research
Result: Winner
Westminster Medal
1997
Work: The Politics of the British Army
Result: Winner
Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing
2016
Category: Lifetime Achievement
Organization: Pritzker Military Museum & Library
Result: Winner
Morison Prize
2018
Organization: The Society for Military History
Result: Winner
Honorary Doctor of the University
2005
Organization: University of Paisley
Result: Awarded

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The First World War: Volume 1: To Arms

2001 Military History

First volume of a projected three-volume history of the First World War, widely acclaimed as authoritative.

World War IMilitary StrategyInternational Relations

The First World War

2004 Military History

One-volume survey of the First World War, noted for its operational detail and global perspective.

World War IPolitics of War
Adaptations
  • [TV Documentary] The First World War (2004)

The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective

2013 Strategic Studies / Military History

Collection of essays on contemporary strategy viewed through historical lens.

StrategyModern Warfare

Bibliography

  • British Military Uniforms, 1768–1796 (1975)
  • History of the Cambridge University Officers Training Corps (1976)
  • European Armies and the Conduct of War (1983)
  • Wellington's Legacy: The Reform of the British Army 1830–54 (1984)
  • From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, Technology and the British Army (1985)
  • The Politics of the British Army (1997)
  • The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (ed.) (1998)
  • The First World War: Volume 1: To Arms (2001)
  • Military Lives (2002)
  • The First World War: A New Illustrated History (2003)
  • The First World War (2004)
  • The First World War in Africa (2004)
  • Clausewitz's On War: a Biography (2007)
  • How Fighting Ends. A History of Surrender (2012)
  • The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective (2013)

Adaptations

  • Channel 4 DVD: The First World War – The Complete Series

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Detailed analysis of military operationsTranscending national and disciplinary boundariesRigorous academic scholarship
Recurring Motifs
First World WarHistory of the British ArmyStrategy and politics

Legacy

Regarded as the most influential British historian of the First World War of his generation, exemplifying new military historiography with global, multi-dimensional histories rooted in operational detail.

Academic Societies

  • Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Royal Historical Society
  • British Academy

In Popular Culture

  • A multi-part TV documentary series based on his book The First World War was produced.

Trivia

  • In 1968, worked as a merchant seaman for three months on Ben Line Steamers Ltd ships, circumnavigating the world.
  • In 1973, participated in a survey of antiquities in Sudan.
  • Served as Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale from 7 June 2014 to 28 August 2024.