Theo Boiten studied history at Groningen University in the
Netherlands. He graduated in 1992, specialising in an overall
history of the developments of the night air war over the Third
Reich during the Second World War. Since graduating, he has worked
in his spare time on his doctoral thesis at Leiden University, on
the sea warfare in the North Sea during World War II. He currently
works as a freelance historian and interviewer and has written five
books: Blenheim Strike, Nachtjagd; The Night Fighter versus Bomber
War over the Third Reich 1939-45; Raiders of the Reich: Air Battle
Western Europe 1942-1945 (which he co-authored with Martin Bowman);
Bristol Blenheim and Night Airwar. He lives in Almere, near
Amsterdam.
Martin Bowman's interest in World War II and contemporary British
and US aviation was fired by the proliferation of US and RAF air
bases in his native East Anglia. His quest has taken him to 18
countries, including the USA, Africa, Australia and Russia. He has
flown into the world's war zones of Mogadishu, Somalia and Bosnia,
and has participated in German and USAFE missions aboard C-160 and
C-130 Hercules aircraft. He is the author of sixty aviation books
about US Air Force/US Navy and Royal Navy/RAF operations, as well
as photographic books on military subjects and commercial
airliners. For many years he has been a frequent contributor of
photographic and written articles to Flight International,
Rolls-Royce Magazine and Aeroplane Monthly in Britain, and to Air
Combat, Air Classics and Air Progress in the United States. He
continues to explore all matters related to aviation and has
suffered, for his art -- on one occasion, notably, he was
catapulted from the USS John F Kennedy in the Mediterranean.
Recently, he was appointed as an official researcher for DERA. He
lives in Norwich, Norfolk.
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