John Ehrman

John Patrick William Ehrman, FBA (17 March 1920 – 15 June 2011) was a British historian, most notable for his three-volume biography of William Pitt the Younger. He also wrote two volumes of the official British History of the Second World War; "Grand Strategy" Volumes V and VI.

The son of Albert Ehrman, John was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, when the outbreak of war in 1939 interrupted his studies. Ehrman served in the Royal Navy in the Middle East and the Atlantic. He returned to Trinity College after the war and his work gained him the admiration of G. M. Trevelyan and George Clark. He was elected to a Fellowship in 1947.

Works The Navy in the War of William III, 1689–1697 (Cambridge University Press, 1953). Grand Strategy, Volume V: August 1942 – September 1943 (Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1956). Grand Strategy, Volume VI: October 1944 – August 1945 (Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1956). Cabinet Government and War, 1890–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 1958). The British Government and Commercial Negotiations with Europe 1783–1793 (Cambridge University Press, 1962). The Younger Pitt in 3 volumes: The Years of Acclaim (Constable, 1969). The Reluctant Transition (Constable, 1983). The Consuming Struggle (Constable, 1996). A Half-Century of Controversy: The Alger Hiss Case, pub. CIA website: "Center for the Study of Intelligence", vol. 44, no. 4 (2001).