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Dr Matthew Hughes is Professor of Military History at Brunel University London, in England.

Hughes studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies and at the London School of Economics. He completed his ESRC-funded PhD in 1995 under the supervision of Professors Brian Bond and Brian Holden Reid in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London on the strategy surrounding the British campaign in Palestine in the First World War in Palestine. He has a PGCE in History from Cardiff University. After working as an intern with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Professor Hughes lectured at the universities of Northampton and Salford before coming to Brunel University in 2005. Professor Hughes has been a British Academy funded visiting fellow at the American University in Cairo, the American University in Beirut, and at Tel Aviv University. He spent two years as the Marine Corps University Foundation-funded Maj-Gen Matthew C. Horner Distinguished Chair in Military Theory at the US Marine Corps University, Quantico, 2008-10. His latest monograph on British counter-insurgency in Palestine in the 1930s entitled Britain's Pacification of Palestine: the British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 was published with Cambridge University Press. He was the editor of the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research . He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a former Chair of Council of the Army Records Society , and is a judge for the Society for Army Historical Research's annual Templer Medal prize . He sits on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Military History and Middle Eastern Studies and is a judge for the latter's annual Elie Kedourie prize. He is currently an external examiner for the Higher Diploma awarded by Maynooth University to the Junior Command and Staff Course with the Military College, Irish Defence Forces, and a Visiting Lecturer and examiner at the University of Buckingham.

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Matthew Hughes

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Books from Matthew Hughes

Inside Hitlers Germany

Palgrave Advances in Modern Military History

T-34 Russian Battle Tank

Fighting Techniques of a Panzergrenadier: 1941-1945

Does Peace Lead to War?: Peace Settlements and Conflict in the Modern Age

Fanaticism and Conflict in the Modern Age

The Panther Tank (Weapons of War)

Britain's Pacification of Palestine: The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936–1939

Leadership in Conflict

Fighting Techniques of a Panzer Grenadier: 1941–1945

The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War

Elite Units of the Third Reich: German Special Forces in World War II

Losing the Peace: Failed Settlements and the Road to War

German Soldier in World War II

The Hitler Youth