Peter Caddick-Adams TD, VR, FRHistS, FRGS (born 1960) is a British academic historian, author and broadcaster who is specialized in military history.
[1] His grandfather and great-uncle, Captain Thomas Geoffrey Caddick-Adams, were both awarded the Military Cross during World War I serving with the North Staffordshire Regiment.
He then attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he studied under Professor Richard Holmes, later his director and mentor at Cranfield University.
[6] In 2003, Caddick-Adams served in Operation Telic, during the Iraq War, with the Media Operations Group as a mobilised Reservist, based at CENTCOM in Qatar and later in Basra, where he was on the staff of the UK Contingent commander (Air Marshal Brian Burridge) and at the USAF Tallil Air Base at Nasiriyah, near the ancient city of Ur, which he visited.
[17] Apart from his books, Caddick-Adams has made podcasts or written for The Daily Telegraph,[18][19] The Independent, The Sunday Times,[20] The Daily Mirror,[21] The Wall Street Journal,[22] The Field, BBC History Magazine,[23] Britain at War magazine, History Today,[24] The American,[25] The Week, and BBC online publications.
[36] In 2012 Caddick-Adams published Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell, which was assessed by The Washington Post as ‘an excellent account of one of the bloodiest and most violent battles in human history’.
In reviewing Snow and Steel, on the Battle of The Bulge, Chris Bellamy of the University of Greenwich observed that ‘Caddick-Adams is probably the best military historian of his generation, combining a sweeping command of politics and strategy with authoritative detail worthy of Ian Fleming’.
Snow and Steel offers an authoritative narrative of the drama.’[44] In National Geographic magazine, Caddick-Adams explained why he felt Hitler was influenced by the 19th century opera composer Richard Wagner for his 1944 attack.
"[45] In 2019, Sand & Steel was released for the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings, about which Trevor Royle in The Herald wrote that it ‘is destined to become a standard work on this iconic battle, and it well deserves that accolade’.