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Versailles. At the end of the war in Europe he was appointed Air Historical Officer, Fighter Command. After leaving the RAF in 1948, he went to the Cabinet Office as a historian and wrote the official history volume
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British viewpoint and his reliance largely on secondary sources and on British sources, even for the war against Japan, where American forces predominated. A review by
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Britain and America. A review of his
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Collier's attempt to rehabilitate Wilson in his 1961 biography
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The Lion and the Eagle: British and Anglo-American
Strategy 1900–1950
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Hidden
Weapons: Allied Secret or Undercover Services in World War II
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Leader of the Few: the authorised biography of Air Chief
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Japan at War: An illustrated history of the war in the Far East
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Victories, The Battle of the V-Weapons, Hidden Weapons
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