David French
Author · 5 books
David French was born in Essex in 1954 and educated at the University of York and King's College London. After briefly holding teaching posts as North London Polytechnic, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Herriot-Watt University, he spent twenty-seven years at University College London. The author of nine previous books, he is a former Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC, a recipient of the Arthur Goodzeit Prize of the New York Military Affairs Symposium, and a three-times winner of the Templer Medal awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research. He is now Professor Emeritus at UCL, a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association, and a Vice-President of the Army Records Society.
Series
Books
The Case for Community Banking,
2000
The Kenya papers of General Sir George Erskine 1953 - 1955
2013
Heart Full of Soul
Keith Relf of the Yardbirds
2020
Raising Churchill's Army
The British Army and the War against Germany 1919-1945
2000
Military Identities
The Regimental System, the British Army, and the British People c.1870-2000
2005
