Cyril Bentham FallsCBE[1] (2 March 1888 – 23 April 1971) was a 20th-century British
military historian, journalist, and academic, noted for his works on the
First World War.
Immediately after leaving the army Falls wrote a history of one of the divisions that he had served with during the war, entitled The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division, which was published in 1922.
From 1946 to 1953, he held the post of
Chichele Professor of Military History at
All Souls College, Oxford.[6] From the late 1940s through to his death in the early 1970s he was a productive writer of military histories, publishing detailed studies as well as general works for the commercial market, his final two titles being published posthumously.
The historian, Sir
Michael Howard, later described Falls' work The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division (1922),
... containing some of the finest descriptions of conditions on the Western Front to be found anywhere in the literature of the war.[7]
Falls, C. (1996) [1922]. The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division (Constable ed.). Belfast: McCaw, Stevenson & Orr.
ISBN978-0-09-476630-3.
Falls, Cyril; MacMunn, G. (1930). Military Operations Egypt & Palestine from the Outbreak of War with Germany to June 1917. Official History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. I. London:
HMSO.
OCLC610273484.
Falls, Cyril; Becke, A. F. (maps) (1930). Military Operations Egypt & Palestine from June 1917 to the End of the War. Official History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. II. Part I. London: HMSO.
OCLC644354483.
Falls, Cyril (1930). Military Operations Egypt & Palestine from June 1917 to the End of the War. Official History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. II. Part II. London: HMSO.
OCLC256950972.
War Books (1930)
Falls, C. (1996) [1933]. Military Operations Macedonia: From the Outbreak of War to the Spring of 1917. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. I (Imperial War Museum and Battery Press ed.). London:
HMSO.
ISBN0-89839-242-X.
Falls, C. (1996) [1935]. Military Operations Macedonia: From the Spring of 1917 to the End of the War. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. II (Imperial War Museum and Battery Press ed.). Nashville, TN: HMSO.
ISBN0-89839-243-8.
Falls, C. (1992) [1940]. Military Operations France and Belgium, 1917: The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the Battles of Arras. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. I (Imperial War Museum & Battery Press ed.). London: HMSO.
ISBN0-89839-180-6.
Falls, C. (1941). The Nature of Modern Warfare. New York: OUP.
OCLC502686.
Falls, C. (1948). The Second World War: A Short History. London: Methuen.
OCLC634221322.
Falls, C. (1950). Elizabeth's Irish Wars. London: Methuen.
OCLC2031043.
Falls, C. (1953). A Hundred Years of War. London: Duckworth.
OCLC1136258.
Falls, C. (1973). The Birth of Ulster. London: Methuen.
ISBN0-416-78210-8.
Falls, C.; Croom-Johnson, Norman (1989) [1930]. War Books: An Annotated Bibliography of Books about the Great War (Presidio ed.). London: Peter Davies.
ISBN1-853-67040-5.