Biography

John Greenacre spent 24 years in the British Army as a commissioned officer in the Royal Corps of Transport and Army Air Corps. A reconnaissance helicopter pilot, John served on operations in the Gulf, the Balkans and Northern Ireland. He is a graduate of the Joint Services Staff College and worked in staff jobs from procurement to arms control, from the Falkland Islands to Canada. He left the Army in 2011. John was awarded his PhD from the University in Leeds in 2009 for the research on his thesis on the development of Britain’s airborne forces during the Second World War. His book on the same subject, Churchill’s Spearhead was published by ...Read More