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{{Short description|British military historian (1920–1984)}}
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'''Eliot Antony Brett-James''' (24 April 1920 – 25 March 1984) was a British military historian.<ref name="Times">'Mr Antony Brett-James', ''The Times'' (27 March 1984), p. 16.</ref>

==Early life and career==
He was educated at [[Mill Hill School]] and served in the [[World War II|Second World War]] as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Signals (1941) and with the 5th Indian Division of the [[Royal Corps of Signals|Royal Signals]] in the [[North Africa campaign]]. He commanded the [[9th Infantry Division (India)|9th Infantry Indian Brigade Signals]] in Burma, where he helped defeat the Japanese in the [[Arakan Campaign 1942–43|Arakan]] and [[Battle of Imphal|Imphal]] campaigns.<ref name="Times" />

After the war he studied at [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]], where he was awarded a degree in modern languages. He was subsequently appointed modern languages editor at [[George G. Harrap and Co.]] and then reader and publicity manager for [[Chatto & Windus]]. He worked for [[Cassell (publisher)|Cassell]] from 1958 until 1961.<ref name="Times" />

In 1961 he was appointed as lecturer in military history at [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst]] and from 1970 until 1980 he was Sandhurst's Head of War Studies.<ref name="Times" />

Brett-James authored works on military history, principally on the [[Napoleonic Wars]].<ref name="Times" />

==Works==
*''Report My Signals'' (London: Hennel Locke, 1948).
*''Ball of Fire: The 5th Indian Division in the Second World War'' (Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1951).
*''The Triple Stream: Four Centuries of English, French, and German Literature, 1531-1930'' (Bowes & Bowes, 1953).
*''General Graham, Lord Lynedoch'' (London: Macmillan, 1959).
*'' Wellington at War, 1794–1815: A Selection of His Wartime Letters'' (London: Macmillan, 1961).
*''Imphal: A Flower on Lofty Heights'', co-authored with [[Geoffrey Charles Evans]] (London: Macmillan, 1962).
*''The Hundred Days: Napoleon's Last Campaign from Eyewitness Accounts'' (London: Macmillan, 1964).
*''General Wilson's Journal, 1812–1814'' (William Kember, 1964).
*''1812: Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia'' (London: Macmillan, 1966).
*''Adventures of a Soldier: The Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns'' (London: Longmans, 1967).
*''The British Soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, 1793–1815'' (London: Macmillan, 1970).
*''Europe Against Napoleon: The Leipzig Campaign, 1813, From Eyewitness Accounts'' (London: Macmillan, 1970).
*''Life in Wellington's Army'' (London: Allen and Unwin, 1972).
*''The Korean War 1950–53: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Armistice in Korea, 19 July 1953'' (Department of War Studies and International Affairs and the Central Library, 1976).
*''Conversations with Montgomery'' (William Kember, 1984).

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