Bond's first academic post in 1961 was as lecturer in history at the
University of Exeter. In 1962 he moved to become lecturer in history at the
University of Liverpool, where he remained for four years. In 1966, he became
lecturer in war studies at
King's College London. He was promoted to reader in war studies in 1978, professor of military history in 1986, and professor emeritus in 2001.
Named a Society for Army Historical Research Fellow, 2023[3]
Published works
Victorian military campaigns edited by Brian Bond. London: Hutchinson, [1967].
Mapledurham House, the historic home of the Blount family: official guide: history and description of contents. Derby: English Life Publications, 1968.
The Victorian army and the Staff College, 1854–1914, London: Eyre Methuen, 1972.
Chief of staff: the diaries of Lieutenant General Sir
Henry Pownall, edited by Brian Bond. London: Leo Cooper, 1972–1974.
France and
Belgium, 1939–1940 London: Davis-Poynter, 1975; Second edition under the title Britain, France and Belgium, 1939–1940 Oxford: Brassey's, 1990.
War and society: a yearbook of military history edited by Brian Bond and Ian Roy. 2 volumes. London: Croom Helm, 1975–1977; New York: Holmes & Meier, 1975–1977.
Liddell Hart: a study of his military thought. London: Cassell, 1977;
New Brunswick:
Rutgers University Press, 1977;[4] Aldershot: Gregg Revivals in association with Department of War Studies, King's College London, 1991.
British military policy between the two world wars, Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York:
Oxford University Press, 1980
War and society in Europe, 1870–1970 [Leicester]:
Leicester University Press, in association with Fontana Paperbacks, 1983; London: Fontana Paperbacks, 1984; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983; Stroud: Sutton, 1998.
Staff officer: the diaries of
Walter Guinness (first Lord Moyne), 1914–1918, edited by Brian Bond and Simon Robbins. London: Leo Cooper, 1987.
Fallen stars: eleven studies of twentieth century military disasters, edited by Brian Bond. London:
Brassey's Naval Annual (UK), 1991.
The pursuit of victory: from
Napoleon to
Saddam Hussein, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 1998.
The nature of future conflict: implications for force development by Brian Holden Reid ... [et al.]; edited by Brian Bond and
Mungo Melvin. The Occasional Papers. Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, no. 36. Camberley: Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, 1998.
Look to your front: studies in the First World War by the British Commission for Military History; Brian Bond et al. Staplehurst: Spellmount, 1999.
Haig: a reappraisal 70 years on, edited by Brian Bond and Nigel Cave. London: Leo Cooper, 1999.
Haig: a reappraisal 80 years on, edited by Brian Bond and Nigel Cave. Barnsley,
Pen and Sword Books, 2009.
The
battle of France and
Flanders 1940: sixty years on, edited by Brian Bond and Michael D. Taylor. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2001.
The unquiet Western Front: Britain's role in literature and history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
The
British General Staff: reform and innovation c.1890-1939, edited by David French and Brian Holden Reid in honour of: Brian Bond. London: Frank Cass, 2002.
British and Japanese military leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941–1945, edited by Brian Bond and
Kyouichi Tachikawa. London: Frank Cass, 2004.
The war memoirs of
Earl Stanhope, General Staff Officer in France, 1914–1918 by Lieutenant Colonel Earl Stanhope, edited by Brian Bond. Brighton: Tom Donovan Editions, 2006.
Military historian: My part in the birth and development of War Studies 1966-2016, Solihull, West Midlands: Helion and Company, 2018.
References
^Introduction to Liddell Hart: a study of his military thought. London: Cassell, 1977
^See introduction to "The unquiet Western Front", thanking his "wife Madeleine"