John Hughes-Wilson

Author of Military Intelligence Blunders

16 Works 535 Members 11 Reviews

About the Author

Colonel John Hughes-Wilson is one of Britain's leading military historians and lectures for a number of international, governmental, and academic-organizations, Hughes-Wilson's previous works include Military intelligence Blunders and A Brief History of the Cold War, He lives in Cyprus.

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Works by John Hughes-Wilson

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Military Intelligence Blunders (1999) 173 copies

A History of the First World War in 100 Objects: In Association with the Imperial War Museum (2014) 66 copies

A brief history of the Cold War : the hidden truth about how close we came to nuclear conflict (2006) 58 copies

The puppet masters : spies, traitors and the real forces behind world events (2004) 56 copies

Blindfold and alone : British military executions in the Great War (2001) 55 copies

On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World (2016) 51 copies

The Secret State: A History of Intelligence and Espionage (2017) 45 copies

JFK: An American Coup D'etat: The Truth Behind the Kennedy Assassination (2013) 19 copies

Eve of Destruction: The inside story of our dangerous nuclear world (2021) 3 copies

Eve of Destruction (2022) 2 copies

Hamel 4th July 1918: The Australian & American Triumph (2018) 2 copies

1914 First Blood . (2014) 1 copy

1915 Pride and Glory - A Tommy Gunn Adventure 1 copy

The Kaiser's Dawn: The Untold Story of Britain’s Secret Mission to Murder the Kaiser in 1918 (2018) 1 copy

Brief History of the Cold War, A (Brief Histories) (2016) 1 copy

JFK – The Conspiracy and Truth Behind the Assassination (2023) 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1944
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Education: Sandhurst Military College
Occupations: author
broadcaster
Organizations: British Army
NATO
Cambridge University (Churchill College)
Awards and honors: Military History Prize at Sandhurst
Legion of Merit, International Napoleonic Society
Short biography: Colonel John Hughes-Wilson retired in 1994 as a member of NATO's International Political Staff. He also served in the British Army in the Sherwood Foresters Regiment. He is an Associate Fellow of RUSI and a member of the RUSI Journal's Advisory Board, John is also an Archives Bi-Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge and the Royal United Services Institute, Whitehall. He is President of the Guild of Battlefield Guides.

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A Brief History of the Cold War (Brief Histories) by John Hughes-Wilson

A very good summary of a complex period whose influence on contemporary politics still plays. Understanding how wars move from capability to technology Nd economy Nd information is an important lesson for analysing any conflict.

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yates9 | 2 other reviews | Feb 28, 2024 |

A History Of The First World War In 100 Objects: In… by John Hughes-Wilson

A staid British slightly jingoistic history of the war divided into chapters where each chapter has an image of a thematically central object from the British War Museums. You can read it right through, but the chapters also stand alone. It is an attractive book and (but?) unreferenced. The author claims that the expression "chatting"as in schmoozing comes from times when WWI soldiers were talking and picking chats (lice) from themselves. This seems to be almost certainly incorrect.

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markm2315 | 2 other reviews | Jul 1, 2023 |

The First World War in 100 Objects by John Hughes-Wilson

Amazon second hand £10

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JJ27VV | 2 other reviews | Apr 15, 2022 |