Acclaimed historian and journalist Chris Bellamy is Professor of Military Science and Doctrine and Director of the Security Studies Institute, Cranfield University, based at the Defence Academy of the UK at Shrivenham. His latest book, Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War won the Westminster Medal for Military Literature, 2008. Previously, he has been Defence Correspondent at the Independent and Independent on Sunday newspapers. He reported from the 1991 Gulf War, from Bosnia many times between 1991 and 1996 (one of several occasions when he has worked with the Gurkhas), and from Chechnya in 1995. He was shortlisted for Foreign Reporter of the Year in the British Press Awards and the Foreign Press Association Awards for 1996 for reporting from Chechnya.
Professor Bellamy condenses a wealth of detail in a readable way, and critically, brings objectivity . . . Bellamy's account of Britain's and India's Gurkhas is shrewd and insightful - The Times'Thoroughly researched and clearly written' - Observer
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