Michael Glover (historian)

For the British author and art critic, see Michael Glover (author).

Michael Glover (1922–90) served in the British army during the Second World War, after which he joined the British Council and became a professional author. He has written many articles and books on Napoleonic and Victorian warfare.

Published works

Glover has written the following published works:

• Britannia Sickens : Sir Arthur Wellesley and the Convention of Cintra, London : Leo Cooper, 1970.
• Wellington as Military Commander, London : Sphere Books, 1973.
• The Peninsular War, 1807-1814 : A Concise Military History, London : David & Charles; Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1974.
• Rorke's Drift : A Victorian Epic, London : Cooper, 1975.
• General Burgoyne in Canada and America : Scapegoat for a System, London : Gordon & Cremonesi ; [New York : distributed by Atheneum Publishers], c.1976.
• A Very Slippery Fellow : The Life of Sir Robert Wilson 1777-1849, Oxford : OUP, 1978.
• The Napoleonic Wars : An Illustrated History, 1792-1815, London : Batsford, 1979.
• Warfare in the Age of Bonaparte, London : Cassell, c.1980.
• The Fight for the Channel Ports : Calais to Brest 1940 : A Study in Confusion, London : Leo Cooper, 1985.

Glover contributed additional text to the following published work:

• Pericoli, Ugo, 1815 - The Armies at Waterloo, additional text by Michael Glover; translations from the Italian by A. S. W. Winkworth; introduction by Elizabeth Longford, London : Seeley, 1973.