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.