Charles Oman

Charles Oman (1860–1946) was a British military historian, born in India and educated at Winchester and Oxford, where he was a fellow of All Souls from 1883 and Chichele Professor of Modern History from 1905 until 1946. His History of the Peninsular War, in seven volumes published between 1902 and 1930, built on the archives of Britain, France, Spain and Portugal and remains the standard account; Wellington's Army is its companion. He also wrote The Art of War in the Middle Ages, a history of the Byzantine Empire, a study of the coinage of England and a volume of memoirs, and he sat in Parliament for Oxford University.