James Owen (British author)
James Owen (born 1969) is a British historian and journalist.
Biography
Owen was born in Holland Park, London, and was educated at Eton College and University College, Oxford. After a brief period as a barrister, he worked at The Daily Telegraph as a journalist from 1995 until 2001. In 2004, with Guy Walters, he edited The Voice of War, an anthology of World War II memoirs, diaries and letters.
In 2005, he published A Serpent in Eden, an investigation of the unsolved murder in
Danger UXB tells the story of the early days of
His most recent work, published in 2012, is Commando, a history of the raiding force and its operations during the Second World War.
Many of Owen's books seek to overturn long-held ideas and conventional wisdom. A Serpent in Eden rebuts the theory advanced by other writers
In Commando, Owen argues that the popular perception of the force has been shaped more by post-war films and literature than by their actual wartime role, which was less as small bands of raiders than as large formations of assault troops. He also points out that the Commandos in fact carried out few operations in their first two years as a unit, and that the excessive publicity these received led to much resentment of them by the rest of the Army.
He is the editor of Great Letters, a selection of notable, witty and quirky correspondence to The Times during the past century, and co-editor with Samantha Wyndham of Great War Letters, an anthology of letters published in the newspaper during the First World War.
Owen also works as a journalist and critic and is a former trustee of the
Bibliography
- The Voice of War, with ISBN 0-670-91423-1
- A Serpent in Eden Little, Brown, 2005 (Abacus, 2006) ISBN 0-349-11541-9
- Nuremberg: Evil on Trial Headline, 2006 ISBN 0-7553-1545-6
- Danger UXB Little, Brown, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4087-0255-0
- Commando Little, Brown, 2012 ISBN 978-1-4087-0302-1
- Great Letters Times Books, 2017 ISBN 978-0008249496
- Great War Letters Times Books, 2018 ISBN 978-0008318451
- Great Quotations Times Books, 2018 ISBN 978-0008317263
- On This Day Times Books, 2018 ISBN 978-0008317416
- Great Events Times Books, 2020 ISBN 978-0008409302
References
- ^ "Lion Television, Murder in Paradise". Archived from the original on 12 February 2007. Retrieved 8 December 2006.
- ^ Owen, James (24 June 2010). The scruffy earl who swung the war London: The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 8 January 2011
- ^ Owen, James (28 November 2010). Murder in Paradise - the scandal that ensnared an abdicated king. London: The Sunday Times. Retrieved 8 January 2011
- ^ Berlins, Marcel (18 October 2006). Terry Lloyd, a British citizen, is killed unlawfully by the US Army. What does our government do? Nothing. London: The Guardian. Retrieved 8 January 2011
- ^ Owen, James (26 September 2010). Blown apart: the myth of the bomb at St Paul's cathedral. London: The Sunday Times. Retrieved 8 January 2011[dead link]
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