The Art of War in the Middle Ages by Charles William Chadwick Oman

Oman was a Conservative member of Parliament for the University of Oxford constituency from 1919 to 1935, and was knighted in 1920. His academic career was interrupted by the First World War, during which he was employed by the government Press Bureau and Foreign Office. He was also elected to the FBA that year, serving as President of the Royal Historical and Numismatic societies, and of the Royal Archaeological Institute. He was elected the Chichele Professor of modern history at Oxford in 1905, in succession to Montagu Burrows. In 1881 he was elected to a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College, where he would remain for the rest of his career. He was born in India, the son of a British planter, and was educated at Oxford University, where he studied under William Stubbs. Paddy Griffith, among modern historians, claims the British infantry's discipline and willingness to attack were equally important. Occasionally, his interpretations have been challenged, especially his widely copied thesis that British troops defeated their Napoleonic opponents by firepower alone. His style is an invigorating mixture of historical accuracy and emotional highlights, and it makes his narratives, though founded on deep research, often read as smoothly as fiction, especially in his History of the Peninsular War. His reconstructions of medieval battles from the fragmentary and distorted accounts left by chroniclers were pioneering. Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman was a British military historian of the early 20th century.

The Art of War in the Middle Ages by Charles William Chadwick Oman