Ian Hawkins

Ian Hawkins (born, 7 July 1939), is a British war historian, and author and editor of factual books about World War II. He has written five books.

Early years
Ian Hawkins became interested in the history of the Second World War as a boy growing up in East Anglia; his father, a Royal Navy destroyer commander, and an uncle, a Royal Air Force squadron leader, were both killed in action. A former civil engineer, he sustained very severe head injuries in an attack in Saudi Arabia in 1976 and was left paralysed down one side of his body. He now uses a wheelchair as a result of his paralysis.

Style of Writing
Ian's books follow an unusual style in that they are made up in part of quotes from people who actually took part in the action. Obviously this is a very time consuming way of writing a book and "The Munster Raid" took over thirty years to compile.

A fan of Ian's books is Len Deighton who has written the foreword to several of them.

Selected bibliography

 * Destroyer, 2003 (all royalties are donated to the HMS Cavalier (Chatham) Trust)
 * The Munster Raid - note there are three versions of this book. Ian added further stories as he found them  One is called Munster:Bloody Skies Over Germany  
 * B-17s over Berlin
 * Edited - 20th Century Crusaders