John Buckley (historian)
Encyclopedia
John D. Buckley is Professor of Military History
at the University of Wolverhampton
. He teaches and publishes on twentieth-century military and strategic studies, especially on air power and the final year of World War II
.
His books and articles analyse maritime air power in the inter-war period and during World War II
, most notably a study of RAF Coastal Command, and on various other aspects of air power including strategic bombing, British inter-war defence policy, and air power and total war
. His best-known works are Air Power in the Age of Total War (1999), British Armour in the Normandy Campaign (2004) and the edited collection, The Normandy Campaign 1944: Sixty Years On (2006). With George Kassimeris, he is editor of The Ashgate Companion to Modern Warfare. London: Ashgate, 2009. ISBN 9780754674108. He is currently working for Yale University Press on "Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Northwest Europe, 1944-5", which will analyze the performance of the British Army during the final stage of World War II.
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 the University of Wolverhampton
University of Wolverhampton
The University of Wolverhampton is a British university located on four campuses across the West Midlands and Shropshire. The city campus is located in Wolverhampton city centre with a second campus at Compton Park, Wolverhampton; a third in Walsall and a fourth in Telford...
. He teaches and publishes on twentieth-century military and strategic studies, especially on air power and the final year of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
.
His books and articles analyse maritime air power in the inter-war period and during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, most notably a study of RAF Coastal Command, and on various other aspects of air power including strategic bombing, British inter-war defence policy, and air power and total war
Total war
Total war is a war in which a belligerent engages in the complete mobilization of fully available resources and population.In the mid-19th century, "total war" was identified by scholars as a separate class of warfare...
. His best-known works are Air Power in the Age of Total War (1999), British Armour in the Normandy Campaign (2004) and the edited collection, The Normandy Campaign 1944: Sixty Years On (2006). With George Kassimeris, he is editor of The Ashgate Companion to Modern Warfare. London: Ashgate, 2009. ISBN 9780754674108. He is currently working for Yale University Press on "Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Northwest Europe, 1944-5", which will analyze the performance of the British Army during the final stage of World War II.