About Michael Balfour
Lived 1908 – 1995 (aged 86). Michael Balfour was a British historian, civil servant and university teacher.
Michael Leonard Graham Balfour (22 November 1908 – 16 September 1995) was an English historian and civil servant.
He was born in Oxford, the son of Sir Graham Balfour. They had three daughters.
Balfour died in the Oxfordshire town of Witney at age 86.
Works States and Mind: Reflections on Their Interaction in History (1953) Four-Power Control in Germany and Austria 1945-46 (1956) The Kaiser and His Times (1964) West Germany: A Contemporary History (1968) Helmuth von Moltke. A Leader against Hitler (1972) (co-author Julian Frisby) Propaganda in War 1939-45: Organizations, Policies and Publics in Britain and Germany (1979) The Adversaries: America, Russia and the Open World, 1941 – 1962 (1981) Britain and Joseph Chamberlain (1985) Withstanding Hitler in Germany 1933-45 (1988)
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Who was Michael Balfour?
British historian (1908-1995)
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Michael Balfour was born on 22 November 1908 in Oxford.
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Michael Balfour died on 16 September 1995 in Witney.
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Michael Balfour was a historian, civil servant and university teacher.
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Michael Balfour was British.
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