Great British Battle Commanders

BFBS Forces News presents ‘Great British Battle Commanders’ hosted by Professor Michael Clarke, Sitrep’s defence analyst, assessing the leadership and strategy of Admiral Lord Nelson with Dr Gregory Fremont-Barnes, author of several books on Nelson and his Navy, and senior lecturer in war studies at RMAS. The interview is recorded in Nelson’s cabin on HMS Victory in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Nelson Glossary
Cuthbert Collingwood Admiral and Second in Command at Trafalgar.
John Jervis Earl of St Vincent, Admiral and Commander at the Battle of Cape St Vincent.
George Towry Captain, involved in the Battle of Cape St Vincent.
Thomas Troubridge Captain, involved in the Battle of Cape St Vincent.
Ralph Abercromby General, mortally wounded at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801.
Pierre-Charles de Villeneuve French Admiral and overall Commander of the Combined Fleet at Trafalgar.
Frederico Gravina Spanish Admiral and Second in Command at Trafalgar.

BFBS Forces News presents ‘Great British Battle Commanders’ hosted by Professor Michael Clarke, Sitrep’s defence analyst, assessing the leadership and strategy of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery with the former Chief of the Army and former Chief of the Defence Staff, General Lord Richards. The interview is recorded in the D-Day Map Room at Southwick House, outside Portsmouth, which was the nerve centre for Operation Overlord.


Glossary for Audio
General Dwight D Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander 1944-1945
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Deputy Supreme Commander to Eisenhower
Field Marshal Herbert Plumer, British First World war general
Field Marshal Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1944
Field Marshal Lord John Gort, Commander of British forces in France, 1940
Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, British general
Field Marshal Harold Alexander, British general
General George S. Patton, US general
General Frederick E. Morgan, British general
General Omar N. Bradley, US general
Field Marshal William J. Slim, British general

BFBS Forces News presents ‘Great British Battle Commanders’ hosted by Professor Michael Clarke, Sitrep’s defence analyst, assessing the leadership and strategy of Boudica, Queen of the Iceni. The interview is recorded in Colchester Castle, Essex, which was built on the foundations of the Roman Temple that was sacked and burnt by Boudica’s forces in AD 60.

BFBS Forces News presents ‘Great British Battle Commanders’ hosted by Professor Michael Clarke, Sitrep’s defence analyst, assessing the leadership and strategy of Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding with aviation historian, Dr Victoria Taylor. The interview is recorded in Dowding’s former office in Bentley Priory, Stanmore, which was Headquarters Fighter Command during the Second World War.

BFBS Forces News presents ‘Great British Battle Commanders’ hosted by Professor Michael Clarke, Sitrep’s defence analyst, assessing the leadership and strategy of the Duke of Wellington with the best-selling author of the ‘Sharpe’ and ‘Last Kingdom’ novels Bernard Cornwell. The interview is recorded in Wellington’s former office in Horse Guards, now used as the office of the General Officer Commanding HQ London District.