About the Author

Between 1992 and 2010, John Hutton was the Member of Parliament for Barrow and Furness. He held various ministerial offices, first as a health minister, then as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Business and finally for Defence. On the dissolution of Parliament in 2010, he was made a life peer. He is a Trustee of the RAF Museum and of the HMS Victory Preservation Trust. He is the author of Kitchener's Men: The King's Own Royal Lancasters on the Western Front 1915-1918, August 1914: Surrender at St Quentin and A Doctor on the Western Front.