Hardcover, no dust jacket. From the private library of Tony Honore and bearing his signature to FEP. Glue residue on front paste down and FEP from since removed book plate. A couple of insignificant marks to front cover. Pages are clean, text is clear and spine is tight. AD
Sir Michael Eliot Howard was an English military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, and founder of the Department of War Studies, King's College London.
In 1958, he co-founded the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
In 2013, Howard was described in the Financial Times as "Britain's greatest living historian". The Guardian described him as "Britain's foremost expert on conflict".