S.P. MacKenzie is a military historian, author and retired academic, now resident in Toronto. He was educated at the University of Toronto and received a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1989.
MacKenzie taught a variety of courses over three decades at the University of South Carolina. He won the Templer Medal, awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research ("for the book which in the Society's view has made the greatest contribution to the study
of British military history") for his 1992 book, Politics and Military Morale: Current-Affairs and Citizenship Education in the British Army 1914–1950.[1]
Works
Inchon, Oxford University Press, 2025
Bomber Boys on Screen: RAF Bomber Command in Film and Television Drama, Bloomsbury, 2019
Flying Against Fate: Superstition and Allied Aircrews in World War II, University Press of Kansas, 2017
The Battle of Britain on Screen: 'The Few' in British Film and Television Drama, Bloomsbury, 2016
The Imjin and Kapyong Battles, Korea 1951, Indiana University Press, 2013
British Prisoners of the Korean War, Oxford University Press, 2012
Bader's War: 'Have a Go at Everything', Spellmount, 2008
The Second World War in Europe, Longman, 2009
British War Films, 1939-1945: The Cinema and the Services, Continuum, 2006
The Colditz Myth: British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany, Oxford University Press, 2004
Revolutionary Armies in the Modern Era: A Revisionist Approach, Routledge, 1997
The Home Guard: A Military and Political History, Oxford University Press, 1995
Politics and Military Morale: Current-Affairs and Citizenship Education in the British Army, 1914-1950, Oxford University Press, 1992.
