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Duncan Anderson, military historian and head of war studies at Sandhurst
As a young academic in Australia, Duncan Anderson was determined to escape what he saw as the narrow anti-intellectualism of his native Queensland culture. Having graduated in 1969 with a first in history at Brisbane, he moved to Kingston, Ontario, Canada, …