Professor Gary Sheffield (British)
Sheffield read History at Leeds University and was awarded a Masters Degree for research into World War 1. Later he was a Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies at Kings College London, (where he attained his doctorate) and was also based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. He published many books on military history. He was as at 2014 at the University of Wolverhampton, which appears to be following a specialist course on World War 1. As an added comment to what we say above, Wolverhampton did indeed have such a course, and the University was well enough regarded that the specialist military publishers Helion, based now in Warwick, have a specialist Series called "The Wolverhampton Series". These are specialist military books on particular subjects, right now (2026) there are about 50 separate books in the series and a lot of them are on the subject of the Great War, which simply demonstrates how important it was for historians. But in recent years the University closed down its specialism on military history, so that Sheffield moved on from the role of Professor of War Studies at Wolverhampton to other prestigious academic roles elsewhere.RCC5864 Command and Control on the Western Front: The British Army's Experience 1914 -1918 (Sheffield, Todman)
RCC7223 Command and Morale: The British Army on the Western Front 1914 - 1918 (Sheffield)
RCC8429 Douglas Haig: From the Somme to Victory (Sheffield)
RCC6030 Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914 - 1918 (Sheffield, Bourne)
RCC6003 Forgotten Victory - The First World War, Myths and Realities (Sheffield)
RCC8298 In Haig's Shadow. The Letters of Major-General Hugo de Pree and Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (Sheffield)
RCC6953 The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army (Sheffield)
RCC6783 The Pictorial History of World War 1 (Sheffield)
RCC6179 The Somme (Sheffield)