I. C. B. Dear

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I. C. B. Dear (Ian Dear) is a full-time writer specializing in maritime and military history. He formerly served in the Royal Marines, and later worked in the film and book publishing industries.

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  • The Oxford English: A Guide to the Language (compiler, 1986)
  • The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (co-editor with Peter Kemp, 2005; 2 ed., 2007, ISBN 9780199205684)
  • The Oxford Companion to the Second World War (editor with M. R. D. Foot, 1995; Online Version: 2014)

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