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Anthony Bruce is the author of several works of military history, including An Illustrated Companion to the First World War and An Encyclopedia of Naval History. His latest book, The Last Crusade: The Palestine campaign in the First World War, was published in 2002 and is the first modern account of the British struggle against the Ottoman Turks. He continues to maintain a special interest in the history of the world wars and is currently working on a study of the failed British expedition to Norway in 1940.
Dr Bruce, who was born in 1949, was educated at Forest School and Lancaster University, where he graduated with a degree in history and politics in 1970. He continued his studies at Lancaster and took an MA in Strategic Studies and Defence Analysis. He completed a doctorate at Manchester University in 1974 with a thesis on the system of buying and selling officers’ commissions in the British army, 1660-1871 (which was later published by the Royal Historical Society). He has spent most of his career in higher education and is currently director of policy of Universities UK, the representative body of British universities. He is married with a daughter and lives in Essex.
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