Lloyd Clark BA MA
FRHS FRGS
Appointment: Senior Lecturer, Special Responsibilities, Department of War Studies, Royal Military
Academy Sandhurst
Contact Details
Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 4PQ
[email protected]
Tel. +44 (0)1276 412388
Principal research interests
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The Western Front 1914 -18, particularly the battles of Loos, the Somme, Cambrai and
Amiens.
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The Second World War in Europe, particularly the France 1940 Campaign, the War in Italy,
the Eastern Front 1943, the Normandy Campaign 1944, Operation Market Garden 1944,
the Rhine Crossings.
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The history and conduct of Airborne Operations
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Lesson Learning in the British Army from 1904 onwards
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The evolution of Command and Leadership styles
Principal Publications
BOOKS
Lloyd Clark, The Battle of the Tanks – Kursk 1943 (Grove Atlantic, New York, 2011)
Lloyd Clark, Kursk – The Eastern Front 1943 (Hodder Headline, London, 2011)
Lloyd Clark, De Slag Om Arnhem (Centrale Uitgeverij Deltas, Oosterhout, 2009)
Lloyd Clark, Arnhem – Cruzando el Rin 1945 y 1945 (Ariel, Barcelona, 2008)
Lloyd Clark, Crossing the Rhine – Breaking into Nazi Germany 1944 – 1945 – The Greatest
Airborne Battles in History (Grove Atlantic, New York, 2008)
Lloyd Clark, Arnhem – Jumping the Rhine 1944 and 1945 – The Greatest Airborne Battle in History
(Hodder Headline, London, 2008)
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Lloyd Clark, Anzio – La Batalla Por Roma, 1944 (Ariel, Barcelona, 2008)
Lloyd Clark, Anzio – The Friction of War – Italy and the Battle for Rome (Grove Atlantic, New York,
2006)
Lloyd Clark, Anzio – The Friction of War – Italy and the Battle for Rome (Hodder Headline, London,
2006)
Lloyd Clark and Simon Trew (Ed.), Battle Zone Normandy: Operation Epsom (Sutton Publishing
Ltd., Stroud, 2004)
Lloyd Clark and Simon Trew (Ed.), Battle Zone Normandy: Orne Bridgehead (Sutton Publishing
Ltd., Stroud, 2004; reprinted by the History Press, Stroud, 2012)
Lloyd Clark, Arnhem – Operation Market Garden, September 1944 (Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud,
2002)
Lloyd Clark, Duncan Anderson and Stephen Walsh, Die Ost Front 1941 -45 (Tosa:Wein, Frankfurt,
2002)
Lloyd Clark, World War One: A History (Helicon/ Hutchinson, Oxford, 2001)
Lloyd Clark, Duncan Anderson and Stephen Walsh, The Eastern Front 1941- 45 (David and
Charles, London, 2001)
Lloyd Clark and Duncan Anderson, The Fall of the Reich (David and Charles, London, 2000)
Lloyd Clark, 1918 - Flawed Victory (Grolier, New York, 1999)
CHAPTERS/ARTICLES IN EDITED COLLECTIONS
Lloyd Clark, “Operation Market Garden – A Retrospective” in Victory in Europe – 60th Anniversary –
1945 – 2005 (The Winchester Group, Winchester, 2005), pp.27-30
Lloyd Clark, “The Battle of Britain 1940 – Spitfire Summer” in Stephen Badsey (Ed.), The
Hutchinson Atlas of World War II Battle Plans (Helicon Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 2002), pp.125-35
Lloyd Clark, “Operation Market Garden 1944 – The Bridge at Arnhem”, in Stephen Badsey (Ed.),
The Hutchinson Atlas of World War II Battle Plans (Helicon Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 2002), pp.20313
Lloyd Clark, “Cambrai 1917” in J. Pimlott (Ed.), The Hutchinson Atlas of Battle Plans – Before and
After (Helicon Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 2001), pp.53-64
Lloyd Clark, “The First Day of the Battle of the Somme” in J. Pimlott (Ed.), The Hutchinson Atlas of
Battle Plans – Before and After (Helicon Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 2001)
Lloyd Clark, “War in the Air, 1939-1945”, in S. Trew and G. Sheffield, 100 Years of Conflict 19002000 (Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, 2000), pp.218-35
Lloyd Clark, “Civilians Entrenched – The British Home Front 1914 -1918”, in I. Stewart and S.
Carruthers (Eds.), War Culture and the Media: Representations of the Military in 20th Century
Britain (Flicks Books, London, 1996)
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Lloyd Clark, “Advance to the Elbe”, in J. Pimlott (Ed.), March to Freedom (Salamander, London,
1994)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Lloyd Clark, “Triumph and Tragedy on the Somme” in The War Studies Journal, King’s College
London, 2001
Lloyd Clark, “Goodbye To All What? The First World War Memoirs of Robert Graves and Siegfried
Sassoon” in The English Review, February 1999
Lloyd Clark, “A Hard and Uncompromising Set of Ruffians – The HAC on the Western Front 191416” in The HAC Journal, 1999 and The RND Journal, 1999
OTHER PUBLISHED WORK
“The Battle of Kursk Reconsidered” in World War II Magazine, January 2011
“Market Garden Reconsidered” in World War II Magazine, October 2007
“Anzio – The First Day” in World War II Magazine, July 2006
The Battles of the Rhine (Official Ministry of Defence 60th Anniversary Publication, 2005)
The Drive on Caen (Official Ministry of Defence 60th Anniversary Publication, 2004)
Operation Market Garden (Official Ministry of Defence 60th Anniversary Publication, 2004)
Operation Overlord: D-Day to Paris – BBC History Website (BBCi) 2004
(www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/overlord_d_day_paris_01.shtml)
UNPUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES
Many and various including:
The Battle of Kursk 1943 –The Second War Experience Centre Lecture, Chelsea Hospital
November 2011
Operation Market Garden 1944 lecture delivered in the Prince Consort’s Library’s military history
series December 2010
The Mediterranean Campaign and the Battle of Anzio lecture delivered to the University of
Buckingham MA Military History course 2010
The Battle of Kusk 1943 lecture delivered to the University of Buckingham MA Military History
course 2010
The Media at War lecture delivered to the University of Kent School of History, 2009
Anzio – The Friction of War lecture delivered to the University of Rome Italy 1943-44 Conference,
Rome 2007
The Coldstream Guards at Loos 1915 lecture delivered to The Coldstream Guards, 2002
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Learning Lessons in Airborne Warfare lecture delivered to 16 Air Assault Brigade various dates
since 2000
A Hard and Uncompromising Set of Ruffians – The HAC on the Western Front 1914-16 lecture
delivered to The Honourable Artillery Company, 1999
Operation Market Garden – Operational Risk Management lecture delivered to the British Army
Staff College, Camberley 1994-96
Airborne Warfare in the Second World War lecture delivered to 5 Air Assault Brigade 1995-96
Media Experience
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On-screen interviewee, Who Do You Think You Are: Kate Silverton? BBC-1, 2008
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Consultant & on-screen interviewee, Battle Plans, Nugus Martin Productions forThe
Discovery Channel, 2004 to present
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Hedd Wyn, feature film produced by S4C, 2005
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A Bridge Too Far? The Battle of Arnhem BBC, 2005
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Battlefield Detectives, Granada Television Channel 4 & The History Channel 2004/5
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Dunkirk, BBC, 2004
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Commentator, D Day Plus 60, all-day live coverage for ITN, 2004
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On-screen interviewee, 1914 - 90 Years On, BBC TV, 2004
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On-screen interviewee, various documentaries produced by Cromwell Productions for
broadcast on The History Channel, Channel 4 and Channel 5, 1998 – 2005
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CNN News Expert interviewee various 2004 to present
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Meet the Ancestors Special: The Forgotten Battlefield, BBC TV, 2001
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Regular Contributor to: BBC World Service; BBC Radio 4; BBC Radio 2; BBC Radio 5Live;
BBC Radio South; BBC Three Counties Radio
Battlefield Study expertise
Dr. Clark has visited numerous battlefields around the world and has particular expertise in:
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Various Western Front 1914-18 battle sites, including: the Marne; Loos; the Ypres salient;
Verdun; the Somme; Vimy Ridge; Cambrai; Amiens.
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Various European Second World War battle site, including: France 1940; Dunkirk; Sicily;
Salerno; Anzio; Normandy; Operation Market Garden; the Rhine Crossings (including
Operation Varsity).
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Other information
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Professorial Research Fellow, the Humanities Research Institute, The University of
Buckingham
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Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
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Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
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Member of the British Commission for Military History
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Managing Trustee of the Airborne Assault Normandy Trust
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Editorial Board member, Global War Studies journal
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Nominee for the British Army’s Book of the Year 2012 for Kursk: The Eastern Front 1943
(see above for publication details)
Education
1988 – 91 Various colleges, the University of London, BA (Hons) History
1991 – 92 King’s College, the University of London, MA War Studies
Languages (apart from English)
French and German (some)
[Profile last revised: September 2012]
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