
Colonel John Hughes-Wilson is an Archives Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge and one of Britain’s leading military historians, as a well-reviewed author and commentator on a wide range of intelligence and military historical subjects.
He is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy where he won the Military History prize. He was awarded the International Napoleonic Society’s gold medal for his, ‘Who really killed Napoleon?’ after graduating from the Staff College. He is the author of 26 books and was selected to be the author of the Imperial War Museum’s ‘A History of the First World War in 100 Objects’ for the Great War centenary. He also wrote the best-selling ‘Military Intelligence Blunders and Cover-Ups,’ (which was found at Osama bin Laden’s bedside after his assassination) and has become a CIA textbook. His ‘JFK-an American Coup d’Etat’ is now on its sixth edition in the US. His latest book for John Blake/Bonnier (2024) is ‘Eve of Destruction’, a study of nuclear cock ups
He has been a frequent broadcaster for BBC television and radio, working with David Dimbleby, providing live TV commentary for events including the annual Cenotaph ceremony, as well as punditry for LBC, Sky and GBNews.