Hew Strachan was born and brought up in Edinburgh. He is Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford, Fellow of All Souls College, and Director of the Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 2003 and awarded an Hon. D.Univ., (Paisley) 2005. He is also Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was successively Research Fellow, Admissions Tutor and Senior Tutor, 1975-92. From 1992 to 2001 he was Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow, and from 1996 to 2001 Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies.

His books include: European Armies and the Conduct of War (1983), Wellington’s Legacy: the Reform of the British Army 1830-54 (1984), From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, Technology and the British Army 1815-1854 (1985); (awarded the Templer Medal), The Politics of the British Army (1997); (awarded the Westminster Medal), the first volume of his three-volume, The First World War (To Arms), (2001); (awarded two American military history prizes and nominated for the Glenfiddich Scottish book of the year), and The First World War: A New Illustrated History (2003); published to accompany the 10-part Wark Clements television series for Channel 4, (nominated for a British Book Award and translated into German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish and French). He is joint editor of the journal, War in History, and was editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (1998) and The British Army, Manpower and Society into the 21st Century (2000).

Recent Publications

Clausewitz in the Twenty First Century , edited by Strachan and Herberg Rothe (Oxford University Press, 2007)

Clausewitz's "ON WAR": A Book that Shook the World, (Atlantic Books, 2007)

'Die Ostfront. Geopolitik, Geographie und Operationen', in Die vergessene Front. Der Osten 1914/15, ed Gerhard P. Gross (Ferdinand Schöningh, 2006), pp 11-26
'Training, Morale and Modern War', in Journal of Contemporary History, 41 (2006), pp 211-27
'A General Typology of Transcultural Wars',In Transcultural wars from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, ed Hans-Henning Kortüm (Akademie Verlag, 2006)

'Strategic bombing and the question of civilian casualties up to 1945', in Firestorm: the Bombing of Dresden 1945, edited by Paul Addision and Jeremy Crang (Pimlico, 2006)
'Les Histories Militaries Officielles de la Première Guerre Mondiale', in Histoire Culturelle de la Grande Guerre, edited by Jean-Jacques Becker (Armand Colin, 2005)
'The Lost Meaning of Strategy', in Survival, vol. 47, no. 3 (Autumn 2005).
'Total War: the conduct of war 1939-1945', in A world at Total War, edited by Roger Chickering, Stig Förster and Bernd Greiner (Cambridge, 2005), pp 33-52
Financing the First World War, (Oxford University Press, 2004). 268 pp
The Outbreak of the First World War, (Oxford University Press, 2004). 299 pp
The First World War in Africa, (Oxford University Press, 2004). 224 p p .