The RAF Enters the Atomic Age

“I unreservedly recommend this work to any reader with not only a general interest in military affairs but also those with a more in depth interest in strategy, doctrine, tactics and equipment provision.” – The Wessex Branch of the Western Front Association May 2025The subtitle ‘From the Rhine to VE-Day and into the Cold War 1944-1949’ sums up well the author’s aims and the coverage… Baughen examines the evolution of British defence policy over the five-year period of the title, and how atomic weapons changed the equation. His text is thought provoking and well-argued, and the 16-page photo section wide-ranging and nicely reproduced. – (Aeroplane Monthly, July 2025)

Greg Baughen was educated at Sussex University where he obtained a degree in Mathematics. In a varied teaching career, he has taught Maths and English as a foreign language, to children and adults, in Britain and abroad. His interest in military aviation was sparked at a very early age by curiosity over the defeat of British and French air forces in the Battle of France in 1940. For forty years, he has delved though public archives in Britain and France seeking explanations. The quest has taken him back to the origins of air power in both countries and forwards to what might have been in the Cold War. He then set to work writing a history of air power in both countries.