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Revision as of 12:33, 13 July 2013

Professor Arthur Jacob Marder, C.B.E. (8 March, 1910 – 25 December, 1980) was a naval historian from the United States of America who wrote a large number of well-received books on the history of the British Royal Navy.

Assessment

Barry Gough commented in his life of Marder:

Marder had always been keen to portray officers as uneducated in thinking about principles of war, something endemic to their training.[1]

Footnotes

  1. Gough. Historical Dreadnoughts. p. 121.

Bibliography

  • "Professor Arthur Marder" (Obituaries). The Times. Monday, 29 December, 1980. Issue 60812, col F, pg. 12.
  • Gough, Barry (2010). Historical Dreadnoughts: Arthur Marder, Stephen Roskill and Battles of Naval History. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781848322.