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Die `!Lees Knowles Lectures`! sind eine öffentliche `F33f`_`[Vorlesungsreihe`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Vorlesung]`_`f für `F33f`_`[Militärgeschichte`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Militärgeschichte]`_`f am `F33f`_`[Trinity College`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Trinity_College_(Cambridge)]`_`f der `F33f`_`[University of Cambridge`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=University_of_Cambridge]`_`f.

>>Contents

• `F0af`_`[Profil`#profil]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[Lecturer`#lecturer]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[Siehe auch`#siehe-auch]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[Literatur`#literatur]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[Weblinks`#weblinks]`_`f

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>>Profil

Sie wurde 1912 zur Förderung der `F33f`_`[Militärwissenschaften`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Militärwissenschaft]`_`f gegründet und richtet sich in erster Linie an `F33f`_`[Militär`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Militärgeschichte]`_`f-, `F33f`_`[Politik`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Politische_Geschichte]`_`f- und `F33f`_`[Sozialhistoriker`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Sozialgeschichte]`_`f, aber auch an eine breitere Öffentlichkeit. Gründer war der britische Militärhistoriker Lees Knowles. Es waren bedeutende britische Persönlichkeiten in Cambridge zu Gast, anfangs vor allem Offizier, heute überwiegend `F33f`_`[Marine`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Marinegeschichte]`_`f- und Militärhistoriker. Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts unregelmäßig, finden seit den 1970er Jahren die Lesungen zweijährlich statt. Erster Lecturer war Sir `F33f`_`[Julian Corbett`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Julian_Corbett]`_`f (1915).

>>Lecturer

• 1915: Sir `F33f`_`[Julian Corbett`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Julian_Corbett]`_`f: The Great War after Trafalgar
• 1922: Colonel Maxwell Earle: The principal strategical problems affecting the British Empire
• 1923: Colonel Maxwell Earle: The principles of war
• 1924: Colonel M.A. Wingfield: The eight principles of war as exemplified in the Palestine campaign, 1915–1918
• 1924: Lieutenant Colonel F.P. Nosworthy: Russia before, during and after the Great War
• 1925: Major General Sir `F33f`_`[Frederick Maurice`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Frederick_Maurice]`_`f: Statesmen and soldiers in the American civil war
• 1927: Major General Sir Wilkinson Bird: Some early crises of the war, and the events leading up to them: Western Front 1914
• 1928: Major General Sir George Aston: Problems of empire defence
• 1929: A.R. Hinks: Frontiers and boundary delimitations
• 1930: `F33f`_`[William Woodthorpe Tarn`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=William_Woodthorpe_Tarn]`_`f: Hellenistic military developments
• 1931: Admiral Sir `F33f`_`[Herbert Richmond`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Herbert_Richmond]`_`f: Capture at sea in war
• 1932: Captain `F33f`_`[Basil Liddell Hart`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Basil_Liddell_Hart]`_`f: The movement of military thought from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and its influence on European history
• 1933: `F33f`_`[John Buchan, 1. Baron Tweedsmuir`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=John_Buchan,_1._Baron_Tweedsmuir]`_`f: Oliver Cromwell as a soldier
• 1934: Air Commodore Lionel Charlton: Military aeronautics applied to modern warfare
• 1936: C.R.M.F. Cruttwell: The role of British strategy in the Great War
• 1937: General Sir `F33f`_`[Edmund Ironside, 1. Baron Ironside`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Edmund_Ironside,_1._Baron_Ironside]`_`f: British military history from 1899 to the present
• 1939: General Sir `F33f`_`[Archibald Wavell, 1. Earl Wavell`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Archibald_Wavell,_1._Earl_Wavell]`_`f: Generalship
• 1940: General Sir `F33f`_`[Frederick Maurice`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Frederick_Maurice]`_`f: Public opinion in war
• 1941: Captain `F33f`_`[Cyril Falls`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Cyril_Falls]`_`f: The nature of modern warfare
• 1942: Major General Sir `F33f`_`[George Lindsay`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=George_Lindsay]`_`f: War on the civil and military fronts
• 1946: Colonel A.H. Burne: Military strategy as exemplified in World War II
• 1947: Air Marshal `F33f`_`[Arthur Tedder, 1. Baron Tedder`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Arthur_Tedder,_1._Baron_Tedder]`_`f: Air power in modern warfare
• 1948: Admiral Sir William James: The influence of sea power upon the history of the British people
• 1949: Sir Ronald Weeks: Organisation and equipment for war
• 1950: Sir `F33f`_`[Henry Tizard`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Henry_Tizard]`_`f: The influence of war on science
• 1951: General Sir `F33f`_`[William Platt`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=William_Platt]`_`f: The campaign against Italian East Africa, 1940–1 / Captain G.H. Roberts: The battles of the Atlantic
• 1952: Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Hill: Some human factors in war
• 1953: Sir `F33f`_`[Fitzroy Maclean`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Fitzroy_Maclean]`_`f: Irregular warfare
• 1954: General Sir `F33f`_`[Brian Horrocks`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Brian_Horrocks]`_`f: Are we training for the last war?
• 1956: `F33f`_`[Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Patrick_Maynard_Stuart_Blackett]`_`f: Atomic weapons, 1945–1955
• 1957: `F33f`_`[John Ehrman`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=John_Ehrman]`_`f: Cabinet government and war, 1890–1940
• 1958: Field Marshal `F33f`_`[John Harding, 1. Baron Harding of Petherton`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=John_Harding,_1._Baron_Harding_of_Petherton]`_`f: Mediterranean strategy in the 2nd World War / Sir Leslie Rowan: Arms and economics: the changing challenge
• 1960: Captain Stephen Roskill: Maritime strategy in the twentieth century
• 1961: Field Marshal `F33f`_`[William Slim, 1. Viscount Slim`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=William_Slim,_1._Viscount_Slim]`_`f: The military mind and the spirit of an army
• 1962: Lieutenant General Sir `F33f`_`[John Winthrop Hackett Junior`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=John_Winthrop_Hackett_Junior]`_`f: The profession of arms
• 1963: `F33f`_`[Noble Frankland`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Noble_Frankland]`_`f: The strategic air offensive
• 1965: Sir `F33f`_`[Solly Zuckerman`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Solly_Zuckerman]`_`f: Science and military affairs
• 1966: `F33f`_`[Michael Howard`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Michael_Howard_(Historiker)]`_`f: Conduct of British strategy in the 2nd World War
• 1968: `F33f`_`[Reginald Victor Jones`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Reginald_Victor_Jones]`_`f: Command
• 1969: Alastair Buchan: The changing functions of military force in international politics
• 1970: Geoffrey Best: Conscience and the conduct of war, from the French Revolution through the Franco-Prussian war
• 1971: `F33f`_`[Harry Hinsley`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Harry_Hinsley]`_`f: War and the development of the international system
• 1972: John Erickson: Soviet soldiers and Soviet society
• 1973: Piers Mackesy: Problems of an amphibious power 1795–1808
• 1974: `F33f`_`[Donald Cameron Watt`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Donald_Cameron_Watt]`_`f: European armed forces and the approach of the 2nd World War 1933–39 / `F33f`_`[Hermann Bondi`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Hermann_Bondi]`_`f: Science and defence
• 1975: R.L. Clutterbuck: Guerilla warfare and political violence
• 1977: Christopher Thorne: Anglo-American relations and war against Japan 1941–45
• 1979: Field Marshal `F33f`_`[Michael Carver, Baron Carver`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Michael_Carver,_Baron_Carver]`_`f: Apostles of mobility
• 1981: `F33f`_`[Laurence Martin`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Laurence_Martin]`_`f: Evolution of nuclear strategic doctrine since 1945
• 1983: `F33f`_`[Alistair Horne`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Alistair_Horne]`_`f: The French army and politics 1870–1970
• 1985: `F33f`_`[Geoffrey Parker`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Geoffrey_Parker_(Militärhistoriker)]`_`f: European warfare 1520–1660
• 1986: `F33f`_`[John Keegan`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=John_Keegan]`_`f: Some fallacies of military history
• 1989: `F33f`_`[Alan K. Bowman`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Alan_K._Bowman]`_`f: Vindolanda and the Roman Army: New documents from the northern frontier
• 1990: `F33f`_`[Maurice Keen`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Maurice_Keen]`_`f: English military experience, c.1340 – c.1450
• 1992: `F33f`_`[William Hardy McNeill`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=William_Hardy_McNeill]`_`f: Dance, drill and bonding in human affairs
• 1995: `F33f`_`[Hew Strachan`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Hew_Strachan]`_`f: The politics of the British Army 1815–1914
• 1996: Field Marshal Sir `F33f`_`[Peter Inge, Baron Inge`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Peter_Inge,_Baron_Inge]`_`f: Military force in a changing world
• 1998: `F33f`_`[Keith Jeffery`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Keith_Jeffery]`_`f: ‘For the freedom of small nations’: Ireland and the Great War
• 2000: `F33f`_`[Brian Bond`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Brian_Bond]`_`f: Britain and the First World War: The challenge to historians
• 2002: `F33f`_`[Antony Beevor`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Antony_Beevor]`_`f: The experience of war
• 2004: David Parrott: War, Armies, and Politics in Early Modern Europe: The Military Devolution, 1560–1660
• 2006: Ben Shephard: What Makes a Soldier? And What Does Not?
• 2008: `F33f`_`[Peter Paret`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Peter_Paret]`_`f: 1806: The Cognitive Challenge of War
• 2010: `F33f`_`[Andrew Roberts`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Andrew_Roberts]`_`f: The creation of Anglo-American grand strategy 1941–45 / `F33f`_`[Nicholas Rodger`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Nicholas_Rodger]`_`f: The British Navy in the Second World War / `F33f`_`[Richard Overy`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Richard_Overy]`_`f: Air Power in the Second World War: A War Winner? / `F33f`_`[Max Hastings`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Max_Hastings]`_`f: The British Army in the Second World War
• 2012: Amir Weiner: Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework
• 2014: `F33f`_`[Ahmed Rashid`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Ahmed_Rashid]`_`f / Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles / `F33f`_`[Rory Stewart`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Rory_Stewart]`_`f / Anatol Lieven: 'Games Great and Small: Afghanistan in the Modern World'
• 2016: `F33f`_`[James Howard-Johnston`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=James_Howard-Johnston]`_`f: The Byzantine Art of War

>>Siehe auch

• Birkbeck Lectures
• Clark Lectures
• Tarner Lectures

>>Literatur

• `F33f`_`[Brian Bond`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Brian_Bond]`_`f: `*The Unquiet Western Front. Britain's Role in Literature and History`*. Cambridge University Press, New York 2004, ISBN 0-521-80995-9, S. 105 ff.

>>Weblinks

• Past Lees Knowles Lectures am `F33f`_`[Trinity College`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Trinity_College_(Cambridge)]`_`f

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