Arthur Godfrey Lias OBE (19 May 1887 – 3 February 1964) was a British journalist and author, primarily of historical works, as well as a teacher and military officer.
His father was Chancellor of Llandaff Cathedral in Wales, and Hulsean Lecturer in Divinity and Lady Margaret Preacher at the University of Cambridge.
[3][4] During the first World War, Lias was Captain and Adjutant, 11th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment and Instructor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
He took the History Tripos at King's College, Cambridge, and in the period between WWI and WWII (i.e.: circa 1918–1939) was diplomatic correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, for which time he was awarded an OBE for political and public services.
He was Correspondent of The Times, The Economist and Christian Science Monitor in Prague, from August 1945 until he was expelled by the communists in July 1949, then in Vienna until June 1953, when he returned to England.