Robert Lyman

Robert
Dr Robert Lyman is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. He received an MBE for services to military history in the King’s New Years Honours 2024. Robert was commissioned into the Light Infantry in April 1982 and spent 20 years in the British Army. His PhD on Field Marshal Bill Slim became his first book, Slim, Master of War, in 2004. His account of the Burma campaign, A War of Empires, was published to critical acclaim in November 2021. He co-wrote Victory to Defeat with Lord Dannatt in 2023 and is currently collaborating with Lord Dannatt again on a new military history of the Korean War. After that, he is embarking on a ‘big’ book on Kohima 1944.
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