George Philip Baker


George Philip Baker was a British author, who published several "popular" history books in the 1920s and 1930s.

Life

Because he was deaf from eight years old, he couldn't serve in the English army, but he would be almost all of his adult life serve as a civil servant in the Royal Artillery. He had an interest for military history and would stress the importante of political and economical developments as underlying causes for the military capacities that would cause the rise and fall of empires. Although he wasn't a professional scholar, he always read the contemporary scientific literature in order to be well informed to talk about his subject. He wrote books about several historical figures, as well as a book on decisive battles that would several times be reprinted. In his books he paid especially attention to military tactics and strategies.

WorksThere are several reprints and editions of his works. The years mentioned in this list are of the first prints.

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