Martin Middlebrook

On a visit to France and Belgium in 1967 Martin Middlebrook was so impressed by the military cemeteries on the 1914-18 battlefields that he decided to write a book describing just one day in that war through the eyes of the ordinary men who took part. The book, The First Day on the Somme, was published by Allen Lane in 1971 and received international acclaim. Martin Middlebrook has since written other books that deal with important turning-points in the two world wars; these are The Kaiser's Battle, Convoy, The Peenemünde Raid, The Battle of Hamburg, Battleship (with Patrick Mahoney), The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission, The Nuremberg Raid, The Bomber Command Diaries (with Chris Everitt), The Berlin Raids, The Somme Battlefields (with Mary Middlebrook), Arnhem 1944 and Your Country Needs You. He has also written two books about the 1982 Falklands War, Task Force: The Falklands War, 1982 and The Fight for the 'Malvinas'. Many of his books have been published in the United States and Germany, and three of them in Japan, former Yugoslavia and Poland.

Martin Middlebrook is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Each summer he takes parties of visitors on conducted tours of the First World War battlefields and to Normandy and Arnhem.