Andrew Gordon (naval historian)

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Dr Andrew Gordon
BornGilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon
(1951-07-23) 23 July 1951 (age 72)
maritime war historian
EducationGlenalmond College
Alma materAberystwyth University
King's College London
Military career
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy (Reserve)
RankLieutenant Commander

Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon (born 23 July 1951) is a

First World War
history The Rules of the Game (Jutland & the British Naval Command) (1996).

Early life

Gordon received his early formal education at

War Studies from King's College London, University of London.[1]

He formerly held the rank of Lieutenant Commander at HMS President (shore establishment), the London base of the British Royal Naval Reserve.[2]

Career

Gordon is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and assisted with the drafting of British Maritime Doctrine (BR 1806), and Fighting Instructions.[2]

He first publication was his doctoral thesis, entitled 'British Sea Power and Procurement between the Wars' (1988).[2]

In 1996 he published a study of the

British Grand Fleet's leadership in action against the Imperial German Navy at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, entitled The Rules of the Game (1996).[2]

He appeared as a filmed interview contributor in the television documentary Jutland: Clash of the Dreadnoughts (2004).[3]

In its Summer 2006 edition,

Fighter Command is hogwash. The Germans stayed away because while the Royal Navy existed they had not a hope in hell of capturing these islands. The Navy had ships in sufficient numbers to have overwhelmed any invasion fleet." On publication the article drew some attention, despite it not being a wholly original new thesis, having been first posited by Duncan Grinnell-Milne
in his book Silent Victory (1940).

From 2007 to 2009 Gordon was on loan to the United States Naval Academy from his position as Reader in Maritime History at the Joint Services Command and Staff College at Shrivenham, in Wiltshire.[5]

As of October 2018, he is writing a biography of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay due for publication in April 2019.

Publications

  • Admiral of the Narrow Seas: The Life of Bertram Ramsay (2019). Penguin Books.
  • British Sea power and Procurement between the Wars: A Reappraisal of Rearmament (1988). (Commercial publication of a doctoral thesis).[6]
  • The Rules of the Game (Jutland and British Naval Command) (1996).[7]

Awards

See also

References

  1. ^ Gordon's Linkedin profile (2019). https://uk.linkedin.com/in/andrew-gordon-583a7541
  2. ^ a b c d "Dr Andrew Gordon". King's People. King's College London. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  3. ^ Entry for Jutland: Clash of the Dreadnoughts (2014) in IMDb (2019). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6584022/
  4. ^ History Today: Europe, Vol 56 Issue 9, August 2006.
  5. ^ Profile of Gordon at the U.S. Naval Academy website (2019). https://www.usni.org/people/andrew-gordon-0
  6. ^ Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1988
  7. ^ London: John Murray, 1996, paperback 2000.
  8. ^ https://www.historytoday.com/archive/awards/1997-longmanhistory-today-awards

External links

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