Michael Howard

Profesor Sir Michael Howard, CH., CBE., MC, D.Litt., FBA. was born in 1922 and educated at Wellington and Christ Church Oxford. He has written and edited some twenty works. His first major work, THE FRANCO PRUSSIAN WAR (1961) was awarded the Duff Cooper prize.

His second, Volume IV in the Grand Strategy series of THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR (1972) received the first Wolfson Award for History. Of his shorter works, WAR IN EUROPEAN HISTORY (1976) has been translated into sixteen languages and THE INVENTION OF PEACE (2000) received the Political Book Prize from the Freidrich Ebert Stiftung in Berlin. He was joint translator and editor (with Professor Peter Paret) of CLAUSEWITZ ON WAR (1976), for which he received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for Military History.

He has also received the Chesney Gold Medal from the Royal United Services Institute, the NAT Atlantic Award, and the Paul Kitze Award from the US Center for Naval Analysis. He is President Emeritus of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, of which he was a joint founder.

He has held Chairs at King's College London (where he established the Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives and is commemorated by a named Reading Room and a portrait by Anthony Palliser); Stanford; Yale; and Oxford University, where he held the Regius Chair of Modern History from 1980-1989. He now lives in West Berkshire where he continues to write, garden, travel and listen to music.

Sir Michael Eliot Howard [1922-] the military historian is different from Michael Howard [1965-] the Microsoft employee who writes books on computer security. The third Michael Howard [1948-] writes books on conspiracies and the Occult. The fourth [1954-] writes on the art world.