Andrew R. B. SimpsonAndrew Simpson trained as an architect and has an Honours Degree in History. He served in the 4th (Volunteer) Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, in Liverpool in the late 1970s where he `learnt to run’, while his great grandfather on his mother’s sidewas the oldest serving Royal Naval officer in World War One and was awarded the OBE for his services. A Friend of the Royal Air Forces Association, he has been interested in aviation and the Second World War since an early age. His fascination with T.E. Lawrence led to his first book, Another Life: Lawrence after Arabia (The History Press, 2008), a full length examination of Lawrence’s life after the First World War and his time in the RAF. Shortly before this book was published, Andrew’s father died and as a second book, he set out to record his father’s experiences as an Australian Lancaster pilot in World War Two. In order to make the book more comprehensive he contacted over 300 veterans of Bomber Command and interviewed some 20 or so personally to find out more about their experiences. The sum total of this, together with archive research and personal correspondence with the sons of his father’s old crews in England and Australia, became `Ops’: Victory at All Costs, an examination of the bomber war and all that it was like to fly on operations. Read More Read Less