No Uncertain Sound

Captain Peter Hore’s naval career included exchange service in the US Navy, and two tours in NATO’s Standing Naval Force Atlantic.   During the Falklands War he was joint logistics commander on Ascension Island, he was military assistant to the Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Systems), he helped direct the Royal Navy’s applied research programme, and he was Head of Defence Studies, 1997-2000.After the Navy he spent nine years in the film and TV industry, and is now a fulltime writer, editor, and journalist.  A freelance obituarist at the London Daily Telegraph since 2002, he has written some two thousand obituaries mostly on the men and women ‘with webbed feet’ including several naval historians.   Peter writes reviews and articles for several newspapers and journals including the influential Warships International Fleet Review where he is associate editor.  He has written or edited a dozen books on naval history, biography and strategy.

"Peter Hore’s biography of Jock Slater throws a bright light on critical developments of British naval and naval air power in the late 20th century."  Professor Nicholas Rodger"Jock was an outstanding First Sea Lord, by far the best holder of the post in the past 25 years, and should have been Chief of Defence Staff." Sir Max Hastings"...This is a masterly slice of contemporary naval history." Professor Richard Harding"... Using a range of personal, unofficial, and private sources, Peter Hore has written a vivid account of Admiral Sir Jock Slater's life that blossoms further into a synthesis of British naval and defence policy at the end of the Cold War." John B. Hattendorf, Editor-in-Chief, Oxford Encyclopaedia of Maritime History.