John Terraine

Published on 25 December 1980
Submitted by Simon Phillips

For many years, John Terraine was the outstanding English-speaking authority on the conduct of the war on the Western Front in 1914-18. He was a member of Council of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies from 1976 to 1984.

In 1980, he became the founding President, later Patron, of The Western Front Association, a role he held until 1998.

John Alfred Terraine, Frhists (15 January 1921 – 28 December 2003)
John Terraine as a Military Historian, Revisited (Prof Gary Sheffield)
John Terraine and Me and the 46th Division: A Personal Odyssey (Prof John Bourne)

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