Antony brett-james biography

British military historian (1920–1984)

Eliot Antony Brett-James (24 April 1920 – 25 March 1984) was a British military historian.^[1]

Early life and career

He was the son of Major Norman G.

Brett-James (1879-1960), a schoolmaster and authority on Middlesex, and his wife Gladys Mary Constance (nee Reed).^[2] He was educated at Mill Hill School, where his father taught and had himself been a pupil.

Eliot Antony Brett-James was a British military historian.

Eliot Antony Brett-James was a British military historian.

Antony Brett-James, the brother of Ivor Brett-James, was born in He was educated at Mill Hill where his father taught history and at Cambridge University.

Eliot Antony Brett-James (24 April – 25 March ) was a British military historian.

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Biography of a Scotch laird who started soldiering in his middle age, and rose to second-in-command in Wellington's Peninsular War.

He served in the Second World War as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Signals (1941) and with the 5th Indian Division of the Royal Signals in the North Africa campaign. He commanded the 9th Infantry Indian Brigade Signals in Burma, where he helped defeat the Japanese in the Arakan and Imphal campaigns.^[1]

After the war he studied at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a degree in modern languages.

He was subsequently appointed modern languages editor at George G. Harrap and Co. and then reader and publicity manager f