Noble Frankland Author

Noble Frankland served in the RAF from 1941 to 1945, becoming a navigator in Bomber Command for the last two years of his service, and was awarded the DFC. After four years in the Air Historical Branch of the Air Ministry (1948-51), he became Official Military Historian to the Cabinet Office (1951-8), and co-author with Sir Charles Webster of the official history of the strategic air offensive, which was published in four volumes in 1961. He was Director of the Imperial War Museum from 1960 to 1982, and historical advisor to the Thames Television series, The World at War (1971-4). His other publications include The Bombing Offensive against Germany: Outlines and Perspectives (1965), Bomber Offensive: the Devastation of Europe (1970), The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War (joint editor, 8 vols. 1974-8), Encyclopedia of 20th Century Warfare (general editor, 1989), Nicholas II: Crown of Tragedy (1960), Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1980), and Witness of a Century: the Life and Times of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (1993).