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R. P. P. Rowe
1868–1945
Best known for A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War, this British writer brought a rower’s discipline to clear, compact nonfiction. He also wrote about sport, especially rowing, drawing on years of personal experience at Oxford.
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A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War
by R. P. P. Rowe
About the author
Born in Liverpool in 1868, Reginald Percy Pfeiffer Rowe studied history at Magdalen College, Oxford, and became well known in the rowing world. He rowed for Oxford in the Boat Race for four straight years, from 1889 to 1892, and later co-authored Rowing, a practical book on the sport.
Rowe is most often remembered by readers today for A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War, first published in 1920. The book offers a straightforward timeline of World War I, and its lasting appeal comes from the way it makes a huge and complicated conflict easier to follow.
He was later known as Sir Reginald Percy Pfeiffer Rowe and died in 1945. While not a household name now, his work still speaks to readers who enjoy concise historical writing and early twentieth-century nonfiction.