John Buckley (historian)

John D. Buckley (born 27 March 1967) 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.

Career

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.^[1] His works include RAF and Trade Defence 1919-1945: Constant Endeavour (1995), 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 (2009).

His most recent work is Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Northwest Europe, 1944-5, which analyzes the performance of the British Army during the final stage of World War II.^[2]

Books

Buckley has published books, articles and conference papers including:

• RAF and Trade Defence 1919-1945: Constant Endeavour (1995). ISBN 1853310697
• Air Power in the Age of Total War (1999). ISBN 0253335574
• British Armour in the Normandy Campaign (2004). ISBN 0714653233
• Editor, The Normandy Campaign 1944: Sixty Years On (2006).
• Editor, with George Kassimeris, The Ashgate Companion to Modern Warfare. (2009), London: Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7546-7410-8.
• Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe, 1944-5. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. ISBN 9780300134490 OCLC 840803701

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