Books by Adrian Smith

Adrian Smith is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Southampton, and previously taught at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the University of Kent. An established author, broadcaster and journalist in the fields of modern British political, social and cultural history, his books include Mountbatten Apprentice War Lord and The City of Coventry: A Twentieth Century Icon (both I.B. Tauris), Mick Mannock, Fighter Pilot: Myth, Life and Politics and The New Statesman: Portrait of a Political Weekly, 1913-1931. In researching and writing The Man Who Built The Swordfish he worked closely with the family of Sir Richard Fairey and the National Museum of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm Museum.