John D. Buckley (born 27 March 1967) is Professor of Military History at the

University of Wolverhampton The University of Wolverhampton is a public university located on four campuses across the West Midlands, Shropshire and Staffordshire in England. The roots of the university lie in the Wolverhampton Tradesmen's and Mechanics' Institute founde ...

. He teaches and publishes on twentieth-century military history and strategic studies, especially on air power and the final year of

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Career

His books and articles analyse maritime air power in the inter-war period and during World War II, most notably a study of

RAF Coastal Command RAF Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was founded in 1936, when the RAF was restructured into Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands and played an important role during the Second World War. Maritime Aviation ...

, and on various other aspects of air power including

strategic bombing Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in total war with the goal of defeating the enemy by destroying its morale, its economic ability to produce and transport materiel to the theatres of military operations, or both. It is a systematica ...

, British inter-war defence policy, and air power and

total war Total war is a type of warfare that includes any and all civilian-associated resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets, mobilizes all of the resources of society to fight the war, and gives priority to warfare over non-combata ...

. His works include ''RAF and Trade Defence 1919-1945: Constant Endeavour'' (1995), ''Air Power in the Age of Total War'' (1999), ''British Armour in the Normandy Campaign'' (2004) and the edited collection, ''The Normandy Campaign 1944: Sixty Years On'' (2006). With George Kassimeris, he is editor of ''The Ashgate Companion to Modern Warfare'' (2009). His most recent work is ''Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Northwest Europe, 1944-5'', which analyzes the performance of the

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

during the final stage of World War II.Buckley, John. ''Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe, 1944-5''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

Books

Buckley has published books, articles and conference papers including: * ''RAF and Trade Defence 1919-1945: Constant Endeavour'' (1995). * ''Air Power in the Age of Total War'' (1999). * ''British Armour in the Normandy Campaign'' (2004). * Editor, ''The Normandy Campaign 1944: Sixty Years On'' (2006). * Editor, with George Kassimeris, ''The Ashgate Companion to Modern Warfare''. (2009), London: Ashgate Publishing, . * ''Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe, 1944-5''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Buckley, John British military writers Air force historians Living people British military historians Historians of armoured warfare Academics of the University of Wolverhampton 1967 births