Digby Smith

rdf:langString Digby Smith

rdf:langString Digby Smith, aka Otto von Pivka

rdf:langString Digby Smith, aka Otto von Pivka

rdf:langString Aldershot, England

rdf:langString Digby George Smith

rdf:langString *Farnborough Grammar School

rdf:langString *German Armed Forces Command and Staff College

rdf:langString British

rdf:langString Military historian

rdf:langString George Frederick Smith and Catherine Mary

rdf:langString Digby Smith (born 1 January 1935) is a British military historian. The son of a British career soldier, he was born in Hampshire, England, but spent several years in India and Pakistan as a child and youth. As a "boy soldier", he entered training in the British Army at the age of 16. He was later commissioned in the Royal Corps of Signals, and held several postings with the British Army of the Rhine. After a career in the British Army Signal Corps, he retired and with a friend started a company selling body armour, followed by several years working in the telecommunications industry. After his second retirement, he lived for a while in Hanau, Germany, but has moved back to Britain. Originally writing under the pen name, Otto von Pivka, since his retirement from the military he has written another dozen books, venturing into narrative history with his 1813: Leipzig : Napoleon and the Battle of the Nations in 2001 and Charge!: Great Cavalry Charges of the Napoleonic Wars in 2003. His Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book: Actions and Losses in Personnel, Colours, Standards and Artillery, 1792–1815 (1998) is considered a standard for French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic War historians, re-enactors, and hobbyists.

rdf:langString Digby George Smith