Professor Sir Michael Howard FBA

Military history; war studies; international relations
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1970
Year of birth
1922
Year of death
2019
Subjects
History

Past appointments

Yale University Professor of Military and Naval History

1989 - 1993

University of Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History

1980 - 1989

University of Oxford Chichele Professor of the History of War

1977 - 1980

All Souls College University of Oxford Fellow

1968 - 1980

King's College London University of London Lecturer, Reader then Professor of War Studies

1953 - 1968

Publications

Captain Professor: A Life in War and Peace

Michael Howard - Published in 2006 by Continuum

War in European History

Michael Howard - Published in 1976 by Oxford University Press

Carl von Clausewitz: On War

Edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret - Published in 1976 by Princeton University Press

The Franco-Prussian War

Michael Howard - Published in 1961 by Routledge

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