Born in Calcutta, Julian Thompson was educated at Sherborne School.
He joined the Royal Marines aged 18 and served on seven continents
over 34 years.
He commanded 40 Commando Royal Marines and then, during the
Falklands War, 3 Commando Brigade which made the initial Landings
and saw much of the action in the battles that followed.
Since retiring as a Major General he has pursued literary and
academic interests. He is a Visiting Professor at the Department of
War Studies, King's College, London. Among his many published works
are Ready For Anything; The Parachute Regiment at War 1940 - 1982,
The Lifeblood of War: Logistics and Armed Conflict and The Royal
Marines. He has published six books with the Imperial War Museum:
Victory in Europe, The War at Sea: the Royal Navy in the Second
World War, Behind Enemy Lines, Modern Warfare (ed), The War in
Burma and The War at Sea 1914-1918.
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