Simon MacKenzie (also known as S.P. MacKenzie) is a military historian, author and academic. He was educated at the
University of Toronto and received a DPhil from the
University of Oxford in 1989.
MacKenzie teaches at the
University of South Carolina. He has won the
Templer Medal, awarded by the
Society for Army Historical Research (“for the
book which in the Society’s view has made the greatest contribution to the study
of British military history.”) for his 1992 book, 'Politics and Military Morale: Current-Affairs and Citizenship Education in the British Army 1914–1950'.
Works
The Battle of Britain on Screen: 'The Few' in British Film and Television Drama, Bloomsbury, 2016
The Imjin and Kapyong Battles, Korea 1951, Indiana University Press, 2013
British Prisoners of the Korean War, Oxford University Press, 2012
Bader's War: 'Have a Go at Everything', Spellmount, 2008
The Second World War in Europe, Longman, 2009
British War Films, 1939-1945: The Cinema and the Services, Continuum, 2006
The Colditz Myth: British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany, Oxford University Press, 2004
Revolutionary Armies in the Modern Era: A Revisionist Approach, Routledge, 1997
The Home Guard: A Military and Political History, Oxford University Press, 1995
Politics and Military Morale: Current-Affairs and Citizenship Education in the British Army, 1914-1950, Oxford University Press, 1992