About the Author

Andrew Stewart is Senior Lecturer at the Defence Studies Department, Kings College London based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. His first book, Empire Lost: Britain, the Dominions and the Second World War, was published in September 2008 by Continuum. His next projects are centred on the British Commonwealth military effort in East Africa during the Second World War and the North African campaign.

Reviews

"Andrew Stewart's latest captures brilliantly the latest scholarship of the field and sheds new light on how Winston Churchill led Britain and the Commonwealth throughout the war. Whether it is putting overlooked campaigns in Africa in the correct perspective or demonstrating how coalition warfare--especially Britain's relationship with the United States--affected Britain's postwar status, A Very British Experience is an important addition to our fundamental understanding of World War II. A remarkable achievement." --Kevin W. Farrell, PhD, Colonel, U.S. Army Chief, Military History Division United States Military Academy West Point

"The nine chapters address various aspects of the war, notably defense of Britain, intra-Commonwealth politics, diplomacy, and mobilization, the protracted and overlooked campaign against Italian East Africa as well as the much better documented desert war and the political crisis sparked by the fall of Tobruk, and the burden of the war on Britain's purse. . . . A Very British Experience will be useful for those interested in the Second World War, as it throws new light on the inner tensions within Britain and its Empire and Commonwealth that helped shape events." --New York Military Affairs Symposium