Greg Baughen has been researching the history of British and French air forces for over forty years. The project has involved delving through countless official files in London and Paris. His initial aim was to reassess the strengths and weaknesses of both air forces in the battles of 1940. This inevitably led to looking at how air power evolved in both countries. More recent research has taken his study of British air power into the thermonuclear age. Retirement has finally provided the time to turn this research into books. The first two in the series, Blueprint for Victory and The Rise of the Bomber, have been published. The third will be published in November 2016. This will take a fresh look at how the RAF was used in the Battle of France and Battle of Britain. This will be complemented by a reappraisal of the operational career of the Fairey Battle, which will be published in 2017. He is also working on a history of the French Air Force, which will complete the study of Allied air power in the 1940 campaigns. Subsequent books in the series will study how the RAF developed during the Second World War and how the force dealt with the challenges of the thermonuclear age.