Michael Balfour

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Michael Leonard Graham Balfour CBE (born Oxford, 22 November 1908 – died Witney, 16 September 1995) was an English historian and civil servant.

Balfour was Director of Public Relations and Information Services, Control Commission, in the British Zone of Germany from 1945 to 1947. He was Chief Information Officer at the Board of Trade from 1947 to 1964. He was then Professor of European History at the University of East Anglia from 1966 to 1974. In 1934 he married Grizel Wilson and they had three daughters. He was son of Sir Graham Balfour.

Works

• States and Mind (1953).
• Four-Power Control in Germany and Austria 1945-46 (1956).
• The Kaiser and His Times (1964).
• West Germany (1968).
• Helmuth von Moltke. A Leader against Hitler (1972) (co-author Julian Frisby).
• Propaganda in War 1939-45 (1979).
• The Adversaries (1981).
• Britain and Joseph Chamberlain (1985).
• Withstanding Hitler in Germany 1933-45 (1988).