Graham A. Thomas is a historian specializing in British naval and maritime history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has also written on aerial warfare in the World War II and Korea. He is currently the editor of the British Army Review, a quarterly journal on the doctrine and history of the British Army. His other books include Terror From the Sky: The Battle Against the Flying Bombs, Firestorm: Typhoons Over Caen, Operation Big Ben: Spitfires Dive-bombing V2 sSites, Pirate Hunter: The Life of Captain Woodes Rogers, Pirate Killers: The Royal Navy and the African Pirates, and Captain Kidd: The Hunt for the Truth. He lives in Bath, England.