André Wessels

• Senior Professor (Emeritus) and Research Fellow, Department of History, University of the Free State

André Wessels joined the staff of the Department of History at the University of the Free State (UFS) as a lecturer in 1988, and retired as a senior professor in 2021; but he continues his association with his department and the UFS as a research fellow. His main research focus is the military history of twentieth-century South Africa, with special emphasis on the history of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899 to 1902, and the history of the South African National Defence Force and its predecessors. He is the author, co-author or editor of eleven books, and has also published some 150 articles in peer-reviewed accredited academic journals, many articles of a more popular nature, some 150 book reviews, and about twenty chapters in books. His latest book publication is A Century of South African Naval History: The South African Navy and its Predecessors 1922-2022 (Naledi, 2022).

• –present Senior Professor (Emeritus) and Research Fellow, Department of History, University of the Free State, University of the Free State

• 1986 University of the Free State, DPhil (History)

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