RT Howard is an author and journalist who has written five books on history and international relations and contributed to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian and many other newspapers and journals. He is the author of a forthcoming book (OUP 2022) on the role of the British and French intelligence services in the 1930s in shaping the policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany.

Selected publications

• Spying on the Reich (OUP 2022); Power and Glory: France’s Secret Wars with Britain and America 1945-2016 (Biteback 2016); The Arctic Gold Rush: The Contemporary Race for Natural Resources (Bloomsbury 2009); An Ode to Oil, Wall Street Journal November 2008

Expertise and public engagement

History of Western intelligence services, particularly 1918-45