Martin Middlebrook
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Martin Middlebrook is a British military historian and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
He 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. This detailed study of the single worst day for the British Army remains a classic. 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 perspective and one from the Argentine perspective.
[edit] Books
- The First Day on the Somme (1971)
- The Nuremberg Raid (1973)
- The Kaiser's Battle (1978)
- The Battle of Hamburg (1980)
- The Peenemünde Raid (1982)
- The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission (1983)
- The Falklands War, 1982 (1985) first published as Operation Corporate
- The Berlin Raids (1988)
- Convoy
- Battleship
- The Bomber Command Diaries
- The Somme Battlefields
- Arnhem 1944
- Your Country Needs You
- The Fight for the Malvinas
