John Kiszely

John Kiszely was educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst where he studied under the distinguished military historian, John Keegan.

Commissioned into the Scots Guards, he served in the army for forty years. His operational service included Northern Ireland, the Falkland Islands (1982), Bosnia and Iraq. He served three tours of duty in the Ministry of Defence, latterly as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff.

His final military appointment was Director General of the Defence Academy of the UK.

On leaving the army he was for three years a visiting professor in war studies at Kings College London, and from 2014-2017 a visiting research fellow on the Changing Character of War programme at Oxford University. During the latter period he wrote `Anatomy of a Campaign. The British Fiasco in Norway, 1940` for which he was awarded the 2018 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History.

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