Simon MacKenzie (also known as S.P. MacKenzie) is a military historian, author and academic. He was educated at the University of Toronto and received a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1989.

MacKenzie teaches at the University of South Carolina. He has won the Templer Medal, awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research (“for the book which in the Society’s view has made the greatest contribution to the study of British military history.”) for his 1992 book, 'Politics and Military Morale: Current-Affairs and Citizenship Education in the British Army 1914–1950'.

Works

• The Battle of Britain on Screen: 'The Few' in British Film and Television Drama, Bloomsbury, 2016
• The Imjin and Kapyong Battles, Korea 1951, Indiana University Press, 2013
• British Prisoners of the Korean War, Oxford University Press, 2012
• Bader's War: 'Have a Go at Everything', Spellmount, 2008
• The Second World War in Europe, Longman, 2009
• British War Films, 1939-1945: The Cinema and the Services, Continuum, 2006
• The Colditz Myth: British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany, Oxford University Press, 2004
• Revolutionary Armies in the Modern Era: A Revisionist Approach, Routledge, 1997
• The Home Guard: A Military and Political History, Oxford University Press, 1995
• Politics and Military Morale: Current-Affairs and Citizenship Education in the British Army, 1914-1950, Oxford University Press, 1992