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Paul Addison Author & Editor

Jeremy Crang is the Assistant Director of the Centre for the Study of Two World Wars at the University of Edinburgh. With Paul Addison he has either co-edited or co-written The Burning Blue: A New History of the Battle of Britain (reissued in Faber Finds), Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945, and most recently, Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May-September 1940. Paul Addison, born 1943, is a historian based at the University of Edinburgh. His interests lie in the social and political history of twentieth-century Britain. The author of many books, his Churchill on the Home Front, 1900-1955 and Now the War is Over: A Social History of Britain, 1945-1951 are being reissued in Faber Finds. As is The Burning Blue: A New History of the Battle of Britain which he co-edited with Jeremy Crang. His latest book, published by The Oxford University Press, is No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-war Britain.