Kenneth John Macksey MC (1 July 1923 – 30 November 2005) was a British author and historian who specialized in military history and military biography, particularly of the Second World War.
After serving in the Royal Armoured Corps from 1941 as a Driver Mechanic,[1] Macksey was commissioned in 1944.
[2] He served during the rest of Second World War in the 79th Armoured Division under the command of Percy Hobart,[3] earning a Military Cross;[4] he later wrote a biography of Hobart.
Macksey gained a permanent commission in 1946,[5] was transferred to the Royal Tank Regiment in 1947,[6] reached the rank of major in 1957 and retired from the Army in 1968.
[11] In Macksey's Guderian: Panzer General, he debunked the view of historian Sir Basil Liddell-Hart regarding Hart's influence on the development of German tank theory before 1939.