Education
She was educated at Downside School and at Balliol College, Oxford, where she was awarded an Master of Arts
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Halik Kochanski
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In Modern History. She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy from King"s College, London. She has taught history at King"s College London and University College, London. She has written a number of historical articles and two books: Sir Garnet Wolseley: Victorian Hero (1999) and The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War (2012).
As of 2012 she is a judge for the Templer Medal book prize.
Until Halik Kochanski"s The Eagle Unbowed nobody had written a comprehensive English-language history of Poland at war. A British-born historian whose own family’s experiences dot her pages, she weaves together the political, military, diplomatic and human strands of the story.
Membership
She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a member of the Army Records Society, the Society for Army Historical Research, the British Commission for Military History and the Institute for Historical Research.
