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Interview on Michael Howard. 'Captain Professor is an admirable slice of life: likeable, interesting and well written.'Jeremy Lewis, Sunday Times, 16 July 2006--, "Sunday Times "
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Michael Howard's ancestry, part Quaker, part German Jew, made him unpromising material for a commission in the Brigade of Guards. The three years he spent with his regiment were equally inappropriate perparation for the university chairs that he went on to hold at London, Oxford and Yale. In this autobiography he describes how these varied strands in his life came together. First there was a childhood in a world of privilege almost as remote from today as is that of the Roman Antonines. Then there came war service in Italy, a mixture of terror, tedium and Lucullan enjoyment. Finally, he was to persue an academic career in which he would pioneer the study both of war as an aspect of 'total history' and of international relations in the nuclear age. In addition to holding the Regius Chair of Modern History at Oxford he was to play a leading role in founding both the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the world-famous Department of War Studies at King's College London. His works (some translated into sizxteen languages) have him the Duff Cooper Prize,the Wolfson History Prize and the Chesney Gold Medal of the Royal United Services Institute. He ended up as a Fellow of the British Academy, a Companion of Honour and a member of the Order of Merit. So the discordant elements in his background and experience eventually harmonized very well. Professor Sir Michael Howard was Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford and Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. Amongst his most celebrated books are The Franco-Prussian War, War in European History and The Invention of Peace.
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I enjoyed this short, sweet book. Sir Michael's story of his childhood & his war in Italy, where he won an MC, is deeply engaging. His oftentimes cryptic account of how he came out of the closet are of interest too. Once this part of the book is over, though, it goes off the boil. I would have liked to learn more about Sir Michael's scholarship -- how he went about writing his books, what he enjoyed (or didn't enjoy) about doing archival research, and the like. All this aside, I recommend this highly. It is a fine work by an outstanding scholar.
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A Sweet & Humane Book,
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This review is from: Captain Professor: The Memoirs of Sir Michael Howard (Hardcover)
I enjoyed this short, sweet book. Sir Michael's story of his childhood & his war in Italy, where he won an MC, is deeply engaging. His oftentimes cryptic account of how he came out of the closet are of interest too. Once this part of the book is over, though, it goes off the boil. I would have liked to learn more about Sir Michael's scholarship -- how he went about writing his books, what he enjoyed (or didn't enjoy) about doing archival research, and the like. All this aside, I recommend this highly. It is a fine work by an outstanding scholar.
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