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Military Historian · Author · Broadcaster
Lucy Betteridge-Dyson
Military historian specialising in the First and Second World Wars, with particular expertise in animals in warfare, military logistics, and the British and imperial armies.
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BBC Channel 4 National Geographic PBS
PhD researcher, King's College London Burma Star Memorial Fund scholar Osprey author
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Research, photography and digitisation at The National Archives, IWM, the National Army Museum and the British Library.
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A Burma Star Memorial Fund scholar, Lucy is completing a PhD at King's College London examining how horses and mules shaped military operations and the development of the British and imperial armies between 1918 and 1945.
- 01Animals in twentieth-century warfare
- 02Military logistics and mobility
- 03The Burma Campaign
- 04Human–animal relationships in war
Latest book
Jungle Commandos
The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945
Jungle Commandos examines the role of 3 Commando Brigade in the final Allied offensive in Arakan, Burma. Drawing on previously unpublished first-hand accounts, the book explores the experiences of the Commandos and their Indian and West African allies in a series of combined operations to retake Arakan from the Japanese 28th Army.
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