Cyril Falls

Born in Dublin in 1888, he became a British military historian, journalist, and academic whose name is closely tied to the history of the First World War. Reliable biographical sources describe him as Irish-born and note that he spent most of his life in England.

His experience of war shaped much of his later work. He served in the British Army during the First World War, and he went on to build a reputation for careful, vivid military history, including official histories and books on major campaigns and divisions.

He died in 1971, leaving behind a body of work that helped generations of readers make sense of the war on the Western Front. His writing is still valued for being serious and well researched without losing the human side of the story.