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This online edition was reviewed and selectively updated in 2011 by Charles Singleton with help from Dr Spencer Jones.

A complete overview of military history from classical times to the present,The Oxford Companion to Military History is an essential guide to how the world has been shaped by conflict. Entries on key topics such as intelligence, propaganda, tactics, women in the military, and peacekeeping are included, with over 70 maps showing the course of famous battles and campaigns.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:

2001

Print ISBN-13:

9780198606963

Published online:

2004

Current Online Version:

2004

DOI:

10.1093/acref/9780198606963.001.0001

eISBN:

9780191727467

Richard Holmes,author

Charles Singleton,editor

Dr Spencer Jones,editor

Richard Holmes, CBE, TD, was Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University and the Royal Military College of Science in the UK. He presented the popular BBC television series 'War Walks' and 'The Western Front'. His publications includeThe Second World War in Photographs (2000),The Western Front (1999), and War Walks (1996). A reserve infantry officer for over 30 years, his last military appointment was as Director of Reserve Forces and Cadets in MOD.

Charles Singleton, is a freelance museum consultant and historical researcher specialising in the 17th and 18th centuries. He is the author ofThe Army of Montrose and the Military Revolution, andUncharitable Mischief, barbarity and excess in the British Civil Wars. He is currently writing a book on the 1645 Naseby Campaign and has a book on the infantry of the Royalist Oxford Army in preparation.

Dr Spencer Jones, is a lecturer in History at the University of Birmingham.

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