21 Facts About Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams is known for books on 20th-century warfare, television work, and battlefield tours.

Peter Caddick-Adams is the son of John Caddick-Adams and Joy Mary Caddick-Adams, and grandson of Major Charles Caddick-Adams, JP, all of Brampton Lodge, Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the county of Staffordshire.

Peter Caddick-Adams then attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he studied under Professor Richard Holmes, later his director and mentor at Cranfield University.

Peter Caddick-Adams was commissioned into the Staffordshire Regiment, a regular regiment of the British Army, in 1979.

Peter Caddick-Adams joined The Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry, a cavalry unit of the British Territorial Army, in 1985, was promoted captain in 1994 and major in 2000.

Peter Caddick-Adams was attached to the staff of the US commander, General William W Crouch.

Peter Caddick-Adams wrote about some of his experiences in 1998.

In 2003, Peter Caddick-Adams served in Operation Telic, during the Iraq War, with the Media Operations Group as a mobilised Reservist, based at CENTCOM in Qatar and later in Basra, where he was on the staff of the UK Contingent commander and at the USAF Tallil Air Base at Nasiriyah, near the ancient city of Ur, which he visited.

Peter Caddick-Adams read War Studies and History at The University of Wolverhampton, graduating with a first class honours degree in 1997, and was awarded his PhD by Cranfield University in 2007.

In 2003 Peter Caddick-Adams provided expert witness testimony to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Peter Caddick-Adams has been a member of the British Commission for Military History since 1995 and the International Guild of Battlefield Guides since 2004.

Peter Caddick-Adams has led more than 500 battlefield tours since 1984 for groups of civilians, military personnel, politicians, veterans and royalty.

In 2010, Peter Caddick-Adams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and in 2017 became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Peter Caddick-Adams is a member of the American Historical Association, the Society for Military History, and the Battlefields Trust.

Apart from his books, Peter Caddick-Adams has made podcasts or written for The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mirror, The Wall Street Journal, The Field, BBC History Magazine, Britain at War magazine, History Today, The American, The Week, and BBC online publications.

In 1994, Peter Caddick-Adams introduced the BBC Radio 4 five-part series Book of the Week: Countdown To D-Day.

Peter Caddick-Adams introduced the game Company of Heroes: Ardennes Assault on its release in 2014.

In 2012 Peter Caddick-Adams published Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell, which was assessed by The Washington Post as 'an excellent account of one of the bloodiest and most violent battles in human history'.

Peter Caddick-Adams wrote a trilogy of books about the Western Front.

In reviewing Snow and Steel, on the Battle of The Bulge, Chris Bellamy of the University of Greenwich observed that 'Peter Caddick-Adams is probably the best military historian of his generation, combining a sweeping command of politics and strategy with authoritative detail worthy of Ian Fleming'.

Sir Max Hastings in The Sunday Times wrote that 'Peter Caddick-Adams knows more about the Bulge than any other historian I have read.