James Jinks Author

Dr James Jinks is a historian and author. He is co-author, with Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield, of The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945 (Allen Lane, Penguin, 2016), and author of A Very British Bomb: A History of the United Kingdom as a Nuclear Power (Allen Lane, Penguin). He is now at work on the authorized biography of Admiral Sir John ‘Sandy’ Woodward, GBE, KCB, The Last Fighting Admiral: The Life and Times of Admiral Sir John ‘Sandy’ Woodward, GBE, KCB (Allen Lane, Penguin). He has previously worked for the Cabinet Office, and the Aircraft Carrier Alliance. Peter Hennessy, one of Britain's best-known historians, is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of the classic 'post-war trilogy', Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 (winner of the NCR and Duff Cooper Prizes), Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties (winner of the Orwell Prize) and Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties, the bestselling The Prime Minister and The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945-2010. He was made an independent crossbench life Peer in 2010.