The Resume

(May 15, 1934-August 2, 2012)
Born in London, United Kingdom
Military historian
Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (1960-86)
Defence Editor for the Daily Telegraph (1986-2012)
Wrote 'The Face of Battle' (1976), 'Six Armies in Normandy' (1982), 'The Mask of Command' (1987), 'The Second World War' (1990), 'A History of Warfare' (1993), 'Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America' (1997), 'War and Our World' (1998), 'The First World War' (1998), 'Winston Churchill' (2002), 'Intelligence in War' (2003), 'The Iraq War' (2004) and 'The American Civil War' (2009)

Why he might be annoying:

He first saw a battlefield when he was sent by the Telegraph to cover the civil war in Lebanon (1984), and described it as 'like being in a municipal garbage dump.'
He was criticized for being too Anglocentric, such as minimizing the importance of the Russian front in WWII.
Political scientist Richard Betts wrote that he was 'a naif about politics.'
He described himself as '95% pacifist,' despite supporting the Vietnam War and the 2003 Iraq War.

Why he might not be annoying:

He suffered orthopedic tuberculosis in his teens which left him with a limp for life.
He was married to biographer Susanne Everett for 52 years.
His 'Face of Battle' was considered groundbreaking for examining war from the perspective of the frontline soldiers.
He was consulted by Bill Clinton about what to say at the 50th anniversary commemoration of D-Day.
Oxford Professor Sir Michael Howard called him 'at once the most readable and the most original of living historians.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 43]
• Historians
• I Attended Oxford
• I Died in 2012 (Ranked: 78)
• I Earned a Doctorate
• I Got a Pet Cat or Twenty
• I Have Tuberculosis
• Knights
• Look at Me and My Pet
• Modern Library's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century (Ranked: 81)
• People with John or Mary in their Names
• Profiles 33001-33250 (Ranked: 33241)
• We Celebrated Our Golden Anniversary

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 54 Votes: 77.78% Annoying