Tim Benbow is a Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London, at the Joint Services Command and Staff College of the UK Defence Academy. He took a BA at Brasenose College, Oxford, and then an M.Phil. and a D.Phil. at St. Antony's College, and also studied for a year at Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar ... Read moreand a year at King's College London. After being awarded his doctorate, he taught international relations and strategic studies at Oxford and then spent two years at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth prior to joining the Defence Studies Department in 2004. He is deputy director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies and Maritime Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course. His research interests lie in British naval history and strategy in the Second World War and afterwards. He is the general editor of the Helion `Naval Staff Histories of the Second World War' series. Show Less