Author

Richard Edwards

Richard lives in Sussex and writes both fiction and non-fiction, with a bias towards history, biography and adventure.

He has worked in the media for many years and during thattime has produced numerous radio documentaries and contributed to a wide rangeof newspapers and magazines.

He grew up regularly attending air displays at Shuttleworth and Duxford, which inspired a life-long passion for military history.

He published The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Imperial Naval Air Service (Pen and Sword Aviation Books 2010) posthumously for his late father Peter Edwards, who passed away in 1992.

Richard has included some previously unpublished material by Peter in The Heroes and Landmarks of British Aviation and has shared the authors’ credit with him.

Peter J. Edwards

Peter wrote his definitive history of the Japanese Imperial Naval Air Service in the early 1990s but unfortunately he passed away before he was able to see his book in print. His son Richard arranged for his book to be published posthumously in November 2010.

Peter was born in London and moved to Worthing in Sussex in the 1980s. He served in the RAF for a number of years from 1945 before becoming a school teacher.

He maintained a lifelong interest in military history, in particular aviation, and wrote a number of magazine articles. He died in 1992 at the age of 63.

Peter’s passion for aviation may have been in his blood; after all his mother was at school with the noted aviatrix Amy Johnson.