Trustees of the
KOHIMA Educational Trust

Robert Lyman

Born in New Zealand in January 1963 and educated in Australia, Robert Lyman was, for twenty years, an officer in the British Army. 

Educated at Scotch College, Melbourne he was commissioned into the Light Infantry from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in April 1982.

Robert Lyman has a First Class Honours degree in History from the University of York; and Masters degrees in Strategic Studies (University College of Wales, Aberystwyth) War Studies (King’s College, London) and Military Studies (Cranfield). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Robert is a graduate of the Joint Services Command and Staff College.

Publications

Paper
The Possibilities for ‘Humanitarian War' in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Strategic and Combat Services Institute (SCSI), 1997

Chapter
The Challenges of High Command: The British Experience Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
 
Forward to
David Rooney’s Stilwell The Patriot, Greenhill Books, 2005
 
Books
Slim, Master of War, Constable and Robinson, 2004/5
Iraq 1941: The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad, Osprey Publishing, 2006
First Victory, Britain’s Forgotten Struggle in the Middle East, 1941 Constable and Robinson, 2006
The Generals: From Defeat to Victory Leadership in Asia 1941-45 Constable and Robinson, 2008
The Longest Siege: Tobruk and the Battle for Africa, 1941 Pan Macmillan, 2009
Kohima: The Battle That Saved India, 1944 Osprey, 2010
Bill Slim (forthcoming) Osprey, 2011
Japan’s Last Bid for Victory: The Invasion of India, 1944 Pen and Sword, November 2011
Mission impossible: The True Story of the Cockleshell Raid (forthcoming) Quercus, 2012