Dr Hedley Willmott
BA (Liverpool) MA (Liverpool) PhD (King's College London)
Honorary Research Associate
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H.P. Willmott is retired, his most recent appointments having been the Mark W. Clark chair of Military History at The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina (2004-2005) and director of the on-line Military History graduate programme, Norwich University, Vermont (2005-2006): his most recent appointments in Britain were with Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich, and the Institute for the Study of War and Society, De Montfort University. He holds masters degrees from Liverpool and National Defense and a doctorate from London Universities, and is a qualified staff officer (National War College 1992-1994). A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has served in the faculties of Temple University, the University of Memphis, and the Department of Military Strategy and Operations, National War College. He has written extensively on modern naval and military subjects including Empires in the Balance, The Barrier and the Javelin and Grave of a Dozen Schemes and the critically acclaimed The Great Crusade. A New Complete History of the Second World War. Formerly with reserve airborne forces, he is author of the When Men Lost Faith in Reason: Reflections on Warfare in the Twentieth Century, The War with Japan. The Period of Balance, Battleship, The First World War and The Last Fleet Action, The Battle of Leyte Gulf, 22-28 October 1944, the last of which won the Society for Military History’s top award for 2006. |