Simon MacKenzie (also known as S.P. MacKenzie) is a military historian, author and retired academic, now resident in Toronto. He was educated at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

and received a DPhil from the

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in 1989. MacKenzie taught a variety of courses over three decades at the

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. He won the Templer Medal, awarded by the

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("for the book which in the Society's view has made the greatest contribution to the study of British military history") for his 1992 book, ''Politics and Military Morale: Current-Affairs and Citizenship Education in the British Army 1914–1950''.

Works

* ''Bomber Boys on Screen: RAF Bomber Command in Film and Television Drama'', Bloomsbury, 2019 * ''Flying Against Fate: Superstition and Allied Aircrews in World War II'', University Press of Kansas, 2017 * ''The Battle of Britain on Screen: 'The Few' in British Film and Television Drama'', Bloomsbury, 2016 * ''The Imjin and Kapyong Battles, Korea 1951'', Indiana University Press, 2013 * ''British Prisoners of the Korean War'', Oxford University Press, 2012 * ''Bader's War: 'Have a Go at Everything, Spellmount, 2008 * ''The Second World War in Europe'', Longman, 2009 * ''British War Films, 1939-1945: The Cinema and the Services'', Continuum, 2006 * '' The Colditz Myth: British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany'', Oxford University Press, 2004 * ''Revolutionary Armies in the Modern Era: A Revisionist Approach'', Routledge, 1997 * '' The Home Guard: A Military and Political History'', Oxford University Press, 1995 * ''Politics and Military Morale: Current-Affairs and Citizenship Education in the British Army, 1914-1950'', Oxford University Press, 1992 1961 births Living people British military historians British historians of World War II University of Toronto alumni 20th-century British male writers Alumni of the University of Oxford 21st-century British male writers 21st-century British historians 20th-century British historians {{UK-historian-stub