[1] He interrupted his studies during World War II and was commissioned as an officer in the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
Warmington (together with some other students of Classics, like Alan Stripp) trained at a Japanese language course at Bedford (United Kingdom) from 31 August 1943 until 18 February 1944.
[3] After the war, he returned to Cambridge with his Australian wife and earned a 1st class honours degree in Classics and History and won the Thirlwall Prize in 1951.
Warmington's Carthage (R. Hale, 1960, later published by Penguin) on the famous early enemy of the Roman Republic was perhaps his most widely-read book, with multiple editions and re-printings, as well as translations in French, German, Italian, and Hungarian.
His Suetonius’ Nero (Bristol University Press, 1977) continues to serve as useful edition of the biography for upper-level Latin courses (and has also gone through several printings).