Anthony Kemp (historian)
Anthony Kemp was an English writer, journalist and military historian specialising in the history of World War II.Biography
Anthony Kemp was born in London in 1939, he had a clear memory of the preparations for D-Day in the Hampshire village where he lived as a child. Educated at Brighton College, after service in the Royal Air Force, he spent several years in Germany before returning to study modern history at Pembroke College, Oxford. After a short period as a university lecturer, Kemp worked for twelve years as researcher, producer, and director of documentary programmes for British television, notably Television South.
He was associated with a number of award-winning documentary productions on the Second World War, including Nan Red, the story of D-Day at Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Calvados. He was author of numerous books on various aspects of military and contemporary history and was a contributor to several academic journals. He lived in France in the early 1990s, where he was a writer and freelance television director. He published seven books at Éditions Gallimard, including four works in the collection "Découvertes Gallimard".
He had a keen interest in the commanders of World War II, he authored Men-at-Arms 120: Allied Commanders of World War II and Men-at-Arms 124: German Commanders of World War II, published at Osprey Publishing. In addition to works on military history, Kemp also wrote Witchcraft and Paganism Today back in 1995, and was co-author of Practical Paganism in 1996.
