Gary Sheffield (historian)

Gary Sheffield is an English academic at the University of Wolverhampton and a military historian. He has published widely, especially on the First World War, and contributes to many newspapers, journals and magazines. He frequently broadcasts on television and radio.

Sheffield was educated at Raynes Park High School before studying history at the University of Leeds (BA 1982, MA by research 1985) under Edward Spiers and Hugh Cecil. Following his MA, Sheffield became a lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1985, and studied at King's College, London under Brian Bond for a part-time PhD awarded in 1994. In 1999 he became a senior lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London and Land Warfare Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course at the UK's Joint Services Command and Staff College.

In 2005 Sheffield was appointed Professor of Modern history at King's College London and the following year was appointed the inaugural Professor of War studies at the University of Birmingham. In 2013, Sheffield was appointed Professor of War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. Since 2009, Prof Sheffield has been a Vice President of The Western Front Association. Sheffield is variously credited as Gary Sheffield, G. Sheffield and G. D. Sheffield.

In 2011 Sheffield published his second book on Field Marshal Douglas Haig, titled "The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army" (Aurum Press, 2011). The Daily Telegraph reviewer praised "Sheffield’s solid scholarship and admirable advocacy" yet added that "the nagging thought remains: what a terrible shame it was that Haig’s progress along his learning curve had to be greased by such deep floods of blood."

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