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

• The Possibilities for ‘Humanitarian War’ in Bosnia was published 1997 by the Strategic and Combat Services Institute (SCSI).
  
• Robert contributed a chapter on General Bill Slim to Dr Gary Sheffield’s Challenges of High Command in the Twentieth Century, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
  
• Slim, Master of War published by Constable and Robinson January 2004.
  
• Robert wrote the forward to David Rooney’s Stilwell: The Patriot, Greenhill Books, 2005.
  
• In 2006 Osprey published Iraq, 1941.
  
• Also in 2006, Constable published First Victory, Britain’s Forgotten Struggle in the Middle East, 1941, an analysis of the war in the Middle East in the critical year 1941.
• Robert has recently completed The Generals, From Defeat to Victory Leadership in Asia 1941-45 published by Constable and Robinson, 2008.
  
• Robert is now writing an account of the siege of Tobruk The Longest Siege: Tobruk and the Battle for Africa, 1941, to be published 2009 by Pan Macmillan.