About the Author

E. R. (Ted) Hooton has been a journalist for 40 years and a defence journalist for about 25 years. He has written numerous articles on military history and highly regarded books on the history of the Luftwaffe, Phoenix Triumphant: The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe (1992), Eagle in Flames: The Fall of the Luftwaffe (1997) and The Luftwaffe at War series (Classic, 2007), as well as contributing to several others.