ROBERT LYMAN
Robert Lyman was born in New Zealand and educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, Australia. He was an officer in the British Army for twenty years, being commissioned into the Light Infantry from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in April 1982. He has a First Class Honours degree in History from the University of York; Masters degrees in Strategic Studies (University College of Wales, Aberystwyth), War Studies (King’s College, London) and Military Studies (Cranfield). He is a graduate of the Joint Services Command and Staff College. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2009. A critically acclaimed historian, his interest to date has been the experience of both warfare and of military command during the Second World War, producing narrative studies that explore campaigns in the Middle East, Far East and North Africa.
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LATEST BOOK: THE LONGEST SEIGE: TOBRUK AND THE BATTLE FOR AFRICA
The Longest Siege is the epic story of the siege of Tobruk, one of extraordinary resilience by its 24,000 defenders who met increasingly desperate attempts by Rommel’s Panzer divisions to break in through the hurriedly thrown-up defenses around this otherwise obscure Libyan port. This was a triumphant Commonwealth story of bayonets and grenades against tanks, of David versus Goliath.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: The Longest Siege: Tobruk and the Battle for Africa, 1941Pan Macmillan, 2009. The Generals: From Defeat to Victory Leadership in Asia 1941-45 Constable and Robinson, 2008.Slim, Master of War, Constable and Robinson, 2004. First Victory, Britain’s Forgotten Struggle in the Middle East, 1941Constable and Robinson, 2006. Iraq 1941: The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad, Osprey Publishing, 2006.
Contributing chapter to The Challenges of High Command: The British Experience Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Forward to David Rooney’s Stilwell The Patriot, Greenhill Books, 2005.
