Geoffrey Best

Geoffrey Francis Andrew Best FBA (20 November 1928 – 14 January 2018) was an English historian known for his studies of warfare and works about Winston Churchill.

He undertook his national service in the Royal Army Educational Corps teaching illiterate Scottish soldiers to read and write.

From 1961 to 1974 he was lecturer, reader, and finally Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh.

[2] He then spent six years as an academic visitor at the London School of Economics[3] before in 1988 becoming a member of St Antony's College, University of Oxford.

[2] In 1974, Best became series editor of the Fontana History of European War and Society for which he wrote War and Society in Revolutionary Europe 1770-1870 (1982).