Greg Baughen

Greg Baughen has been researching the history of British and French air forces for over fifty years. The project has involved delving through countless official files in London and Paris. His initial aim was to reassess the strengths and weaknesses of both air forces in the battles of 1940. This inevitably led to looking at how air power evolved in both countries. More recent research has taken his study of British air power into the thermonuclear age. Retirement has finally provided the time to turn this research into a series of books

The first seven instalments in the history of British air power ("Blueprint for Victory", "The Rise of the Bomber", "The RAF in the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain", "RAF on the Offensive", "RAF at the Crossroads", "The RAF's Road to D-Day" and the RAF Enters the Atomic Age") have been published. The next and penultimate instalment, "The RAF Prepares for World War 3 - From Slessor to Sandys 1950-1957", is in preparation. All books in the series are stand-alone accounts of a specific era and require no knowledge from previous instalments.

Baughen has also published a history of the French Air Force up to 1940 ("The Rise and Fall of the French Air Force") and a reappraisal of the operational career of the Fairey Battle.

Baughen has published articles in The Aviation Historian, Aeroplane, RAF Air Power Review and Air Britain's Aeromilitaria.

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