Martin Middlebrook

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English military historian and author (1932–2024)

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Martin Middlebrook (24 January 1932 – 19 January 2024) was an English military historian and author.

Education and military service

Middlebrook was educated at various schools, including Ratcliffe College, Leicester. He entered National Service in 1950, was commissioned in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC), and served as a Motor Transport Officer in the Suez Canal Zone and Aqaba, Jordan. Middlebrook subsequently spent three years in Territorial Army service.

Career

Middlebrook wrote his first book The First Day on the Somme (1971) following a visit to the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium in 1967. The book is a detailed study of the single worst day for the British Army. Middlebrook gave the same single-day treatment to 21 March 1918, the opening of the German spring offensive, in The Kaiser's Battle. Middlebrook's Second World War books concentrate on the air war. A number of them again deal with a single day of action (The Nuremberg Raid, The Schweinfurt–Regensburg Mission and The Peenemünde Raid) while others cover longer air battles (The Battle of Hamburg and The Berlin Raids). Middlebrook also wrote two books on the Falklands War, one from the British and Falkland Islanders' perspective and one from the Argentinian perspective.

Death

Middlebrook died in Cheltenham on 19 January 2024, at the age of 91.

Honours

Middlebrook was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). He was appointed Knight of the Order of the Belgian Crown in 2004.

Books

  • The First Day on the Somme with much co-operation from John Howlett. (1971)
  • The Nuremberg Raid (1973)
  • Convoy SC.122 & HX.229 (1976)
  • Battleship: the loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse (with Patrick Mahoney) (1977)
  • The Kaiser's Battle with much co-operation from Neville Mackinder. (1978)
  • The Battle of Hamburg (1980)
  • The Peenemünde Raid (1982)
  • The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission (1983)
  • The Bomber Command War Diaries (1985) (with the late Chris Everitt)
  • The Falklands War, 1982 (1985) first published as Operation Corporate
  • The Berlin Raids (1988)
  • The Somme Battlefields: a Comprehensive Guide from Crʹecy to the Two World Wars (with his wife Mary Middlebrook) (1991)
  • Arnhem 1944 (1994)
  • Your Country Needs You: from Six to Sixty-five Divisions (2000)
  • Captain Staniland's Journey: The North Midlands Territorials Go To War (2003)

References

References

  1. Ottawa Citizen More Ottawa Citizen. "Q&A: Military historian, Martin Middlebrook". Ottawa Citizen.
  2. (23 January 2024). "Martin Middlebrook".
  3. (25 January 2024). "Middlebrook". The Telegraph.
  4. (1 March 2024). "Martin Middlebrook obituary". [[The Times]].
  5. "An interview with Martin Middlebrook: reflections on fifty years of researching and writing on the First World War".

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