John Gooch is Emeritus Professor of International History, University of Leeds, and Honorary Professor of History, University of Kent.
Books in order of publication:
| The Plans of War the General Staff and British Military Strategy, c.1900-1916 | 1974 |
| Armies in Europe | 1980 |
| Strategy and the Social Sciences | 1981 |
| The Prospect of War: The British Defence Policy 1847-1942 | 1981 |
| The Unification of Italy | 1986 |
| Army, State, and Society in Italy, 1870-1915 | 1989 |
| Decisive Campaigns of the Second World War | 1990 |
| Airpower: Theory And Practice | 1995 |
| The Boer War: Direction, Experience and Image | 2000 |
| Italy and the Second World War | 2001 |
| Mussolini and His Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940 | 2007 |
| Military Deception and Strategic Surprise! | 2012 |
| The Italian Army and the First World War | 2014 |
| Armies in Europe: Volume 1 | 2015 |
| Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 | 2020 |