Patrick Bishop spent twenty-five years as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts around the world. He is the author of two hugely acclaimed books about the Royal Air Force during WWII, Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys. 3 Para, an epic account of the British deployment to Afghanistan, was published in 2006. A Good War was published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2008 and the follow-up to 3 Para, Ground Truth: 3 Para Return to Afghanistan, was published by Harper Press in 2009. Follow Me Home was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2011.
His other books include Wings, a history of the RAF, published by Atlantic in October 2012, and Target Tirpitz, about the sinking of Hitler’s most prized battleship, published by Harper Collins in February 2012, and The Reckoning, the story of the death of Avram Stern, was published by Harper Collins in February 2014. The Cooler King, which tells the story of WWII POW and escapee William Ash, was published by Atlantic in September 2015.
Air Force Blue (William Collins, 2018), which celebrates 100 years of the RAF, was a Sunday Times Bestseller. The Man Who Was Saturday was also published by Williams Collins in 2019. Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice was published by Viking in 2021. Paris ’44: The Shame and the Glory was published by Penguin in 2024.
