Dr Robert Lyman is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was commissioned into the Light Infantry in April 1982 and spent 20-years in the British Army.
His PhD was on Field Marshal Bill Slim and became his first book, Slim, Master of War in 2004. The primary focus of his research is the British and Commonwealth armies in the Second World War, where he has published extensively on the Pacific and Far East, North Africa and North West Europe. He has co-authored two books with General Lord Dannatt.
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