Julian Thompson
Major General Julian Thompson CB OBE is a military historian and former Royal Marines officer. He has acted as consultant and presenter of D-Day, VE Day and VJ Day television programmes for the BBC. During his thirty-four years of service he spent a considerable amount of time at sea, and carried out landing operations and exercises from Norway to Australia, in numerous places in the Mediterranean (from Turkish Thrace to Libya), and from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean; landing from helicopter carriers, landing ships, landing craft, destroyers, and even a submarine depot ship, in numerous different types of vessel from hovercraft to rubber boats. He is the author of over twenty books.
