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    Michael Howard

    British politician; Former leader of the Conservative Party

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  1. Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne CH PC KC (born Michael Hecht; 7 July 1941) is a British politician who was Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005.

  2. Sir Michael Eliot Howard OM CH CBE MC FBA FRHistS (29 November 1922 – 30 November 2019) was an English military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale ...

  3. Jul 3, 2024 · Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne is a British politician who was the leader of the Conservative Party (2003–05). Howard’s father, Bernat Hecht, was a Jewish Romanian immigrant who settled in England in 1939 and changed his name to Bernard Howard.

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  4. Michael Howard (born Michael Hecht, 7 July 1941) is a British politician who was the Leader of the Conservative Party from November 2003 to December 2005. He was also a cabinet minister in both Margaret Thatcher 's and John Major 's governments.

  5. Feb 24, 2020 · A collection of essays by scholars who reflect on the life and work of the eminent military historian Sir Michael Howard, who passed away in 2019. They discuss his 1967 lecture on strategy and policy in 20th-century warfare, his influence on the fields of history and strategy, and his legacy as a teacher and mentor.

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  7. Jan 1, 2020 · A tribute to Sir Michael Howard, who died in 2019, a giant in the fields of military history and strategic studies. He was a decorated veteran, a Clausewitz translator, a policy adviser, and a historian who stressed the social and contextual dimensions of war.

  8. Dec 7, 2020 · When Michael Howard took up his lectureship in Military Studies, as it was then called, the Chichele Professorship of Military History at Oxford was held by Cyril Falls. Falls was a balanced, sane commentator who wrote particularly well on the war in which he himself had served, the First World War.

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