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Peter Caddick-Adams, TD, VR, FRHistS, FRGS

Peter Caddick-Adams (b. 22 November 1960), is a British academic historian, author and broadcaster who specializes in military history. He is best known for his several books, mostly about 20th Century watfare, television work, and battlefield tours.

Background [edit] He is the son of John Caddick-Adams and Joy Mary Caddick-Adams (née Martin), and grandson of Major Charles Caddick-Adams, all of Brampton Lodge, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. The house was in possession of the family for 110 years before being sold in 2008. His grandfather and great-uncle, Captain Thomas Geoffrey Caddick-Adams, were both awarded the Military Cross during World War 1. His maternal grandfather was Clifford Arthur Martin, fourth Bishop of Liverpool and Chaplain to King George VI. His cousin is Vice Admiral Paul Bennett.

Military Career [edit]

He was born in Chelsea, and educated between 1974-78 at Shewsbury School in Shropshire. He then attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where studied under Richard Holmes, later his boss and mentor at Cranfield University. He was commissioned into The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s), a regular regiment of the British Army in 1979. This was a regiment in which several family members had served. He joined the Queen’s Own Mercian Yeomanry (later amalgamated into The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry), a cavalry unit of the Territorial Army, in 1985, was promoted Captain in 1994   and Major in 2000. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1998. A fellow officer was the MP, Desmond Swayne. In 1996-7, Caddick-Adams was mobilised as an army reservist and served as the official NATO and SHAPE Historian in Bosnia with the IFOR and SFOR peace keeping missions, based in Sarajevo. He was attached to the staff of the US Commander, General William W. Crouch. He wrote about some of his experiences in 1998. One of his entertaining letters home, written from Sarajevo in 1996, appeared in Andrew Carroll’s Behind the Lines (2005). In 2003, Caddick-Adams served in Operation TELIC, the Iraq War, as the official UK Historian, based at CENTCOM in Qatar and Basra, where he was on the staff of the UK Contingent Commander (Air Chief Marshal Brian Burridge) and reported for The Sandy Times forces newspaper. Latterly, Caddick-Adams worked for ISAF in Afghanistan, and served with the Media Operations Group (Volunteers), when it was commanded by Alastair Bruce of Crionaich. In 2010, he was awarded the Volunteer Reserves Service Medal.

Academic Career [edit]

Caddick-Adams worked for several years for the family business of John Caddick & Son Ltd (first established 1852) before switching to an academic career. In 1985 he was elected a Councillor of the Ancient Corporation of Hanley. He read War Studies and History at The University of Wolverhampton, graduating with First Class Honours in 1997, and was awarded his PhD by Cranfield University in 2007. He subsequently worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and for Kellogg College, at the University of Oxford. From May 1999 to December 2017, he taught at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (formerly The Royal Military College of Science), and at Cranfield University as Lecturer in Military and Security Studies. He also lectured in Air Power at RAF Halton. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Centre for Historical Research, School of Social, Historical & Political Studies, University of Wolverhampton.

In 2003 Caddick-Adams provided expert witness testimony to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He has been a Member of the British Commission for Military History since 1995 and the International Guild of Battlefield Guides since 2004. He has led more than 500 battlefield tours since 1984 for groups of civilians, military personnel, business executives, politicians, veterans and royalty. In 2010, Caddick-Adams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) , and in 2017 became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS). He was a Member of the Education and Learning Committee of Waterloo 200,  Research Consultant to the Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace 14-18 photographic project,  and a Hon. Patron of the Chalke Valley History Festival. He is Patron of two 19th Century British defensive structures, Fort Luton in Kent and Shoreham Redoubt in West Sussex.

Journalism and Filmography [edit]

Apart from his books, Caddick-Adams has written for The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Sunday Times,  The Sun,  The Daily Mirror,  The Wall Street Journal,  The Field, BBC History Magazine,   Britain at War magazine, History Today,  The American,  The Week, and BBC online publications. He commentates for BBC News, Sky News and Euronews on national events, current defence issues and military history. Caddick-Adams has contributed to numerous documentaries, including Battlefield Detectives (2004/5), The 100 Greatest Warfilms (2005), 21st Century Warfare (2007), Weaponology (2007), Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale (2007), Battle of Britain: The Real Story (2010) , Combat Countdown (2012)   , The Battle for Malta (2013)  , Normandy '44: The Battle Beyond D-Day (2014)   , Nazi Megastructures (2016), Gary Lineker: My Grandad’s War (2019)   and Frontlines (2020). In 1994, Caddick-Adams introduced the BBC Radio 4 five-part series Book Of The Week: Countdown To D-Day. In 2012, it was announced that he would be the Historical Consultant for a forthcoming movie about the Battle of Monte Cassino, to be directed by John Irvin. Caddick-Adams introduced Company of Heroes: Ardennes Assault on its release in 2014.

Politics [edit]

Caddick-Adams worked for a year as parliamentary researcher for the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West, Nick Budgen, and was his (unpaid) election agent in the 1987 General Election. In 2009 he joined the UK National Defence Association, a politically independent pressure group which supports Britain's armed forces and advocates increasing the UK defence budget.

Authorship [edit] His 2011 work, Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives about Field Marshals Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel was praised by historian Michael Korda in The Daily Beast for ‘its readability and very rare fair-mindedness’. In 2012 Caddick-Adams published Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell, which was assessed by The Washington Post as ‘an excellent account of one of the bloodiest and most violent battles in human history’. Alexander Rose, writing in The Wall Street Journal called it ‘exceptional’. It has since been translated into Polish, Spanish and Italian. It was shortlisted as British Army Military Book of the Year for 2012. In reviewing Snow and Steel, Caddick-Adams’s 2014 work on the Battle of The Bulge, Professor Chris Bellamy  of the University of Greenwich observed that ‘Caddick-Adams is probably the best military historian of his generation, combining a sweeping command of politics and strategy with authoritative detail worthy of Ian Fleming’. Max Hastings in The Sunday Times wrote that ‘Caddick-Adams knows more about the Bulge than any other historian I have read...I admire his originality...’

In National Geographic magazine, Caddick-Adams explained why he felt Hitler was influenced by the 19th Century opera composer Richard Wagner for his 1944 attack. “In Wagner’s operas, a huge amount of the action takes place in woods and forests. This taps into old Nordic mythology - that woods are a place of testing for human beings. So it was no accident that the attack against the Americans was launched from large forests, in heavy fog.” In 2019, Sand & Steel was released for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, about which Trevor Royle in The Herald wrote that it ‘is destined to become a standard work on this iconic battle, and it well deserves that accolade’. Jerry D. Lenaburg, writing in the New York Journal of Books noted the work questioned “many of the long-held myths of D-Day. This critique is long overdue and actually adds value to the overall narrative as these myths are either corrected or validated.” It was shortlisted for British Army Military Book of the Year 2020 , The Society of Army Historical Research’s Templer Medal   and the RUSI Wellington Medal for Military History 2020.

Publications Books [edit] •	By God They Can Fight: A History of The 143rd Infantry Brigade, 1908-1995 (British Army, 1995) •	The Fight For Iraq (The Army Benevolent Fund, 2004) ISBN-13: 978-0951822920 •	Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives (Preface Random House, 2011) ISBN 978-1590207253 •	Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell (Preface Random House, 2012) ISBN 978-0199974641 •	Snow & Steel: The Battle of The Bulge 1944-45 (Preface Random House, 2014) ISBN 978-1848094284 •	Sand & Steel: A New History of D-Day (Hutchinson, 2019) ISBN-13: 978-1847948281

Contributor [edit] •	The Prime Ministers, 1721-2020: Three Hundred Years of Political Leadership, ed. Iain Dale & Mark Fox (Hutchinson, 2020) Chapter on Winston Churchill. •	Anthony Tucker-Jones, The Devil’s Bridge - The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944 (Osprey, 2020) Foreword •	Rudolf Böhmler, Monte Cassino: A German View (Pen & Sword, 2015) Introduction •	David Martin, Londoners on the Western Front: The 58th (2/1st London) Division on the Western Front (Pen & Sword, 2014) Foreword •	A Reader’s Guide to Military History (Routledge, 2013) •	The First World War Story (BBC History, 2012) •	Europe Since 1914: The Encyclopaedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction (Scribner’s, 2006) Three essays •	The Relevance & Role of the Battlefield Tour and Staff Ride in the 21st Century (Strategic & Combat Studies Institute, 2005) Chapter 2 •	Oxford Companion to Military History (Oxford, 2001) •	One Hundred Years of Conflict: 1900-2000 (Sutton, 2001) Chapter •	The Battle of France and Flanders: Sixty Years On (Leo Cooper, 2001) Two chapters •	Human Resource Management in the Armed Forces (Frank Cass, 2001) Chapter •	A Reader’s Guide to Military History (Routledge, 2001) Three essays •	Lightning Strikes Twice, 1914-45, Vol. 2: Who Won, Who Lost? (Collins, 2001) One chapter

External links [edit]

•	June 6, 1944: UK’s Last Day as a Superpower •	Death on the Battlefield •	Tracing Military Records •	Blitzed by Guidebook •	How Shall We Remember Them •	The Invisible Army •	Rethinking the Somme •	Britain’s Forgotten Invasion of Argentina •	World War One Pardons •	Images of Victory •	Airfix Made Me the Man I Am •	Ninety Years of the Tank •	Royals at War •	A History of Friendly Fire •	The Long Goodbye •	Words of War •	How to Drive a Tank •	Speaking Out

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HistoryCove (talk) 09:31, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Based on your talk page I am assuming you are Peter Caddick? &thinsp;Darth&thinsp; Flappy   '&laquo;Talk&raquo;'  00:25, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I would recommend that you put the article that you want in your sandbox (at ) because what you want is basicly a rewrite. Also your citations need to be inline citations &thinsp;Darth&thinsp; Flappy   '&laquo;Talk&raquo;'  21:51, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Please put you article in your sandbox with inline citations. Seeing no responce I will mark this as answered, but feel free to remove the  if you have anything else. Thanks!  &thinsp;Darth&thinsp; Flappy   '&laquo;Talk&raquo;'  20:57, 3 July 2020 (UTC)