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British historian and television producer

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Taylor Downing (born 20 July 1953) is a British historian and television producer. He studied at Latymer Upper School and Christ's College, Cambridge University, where he achieved a Double First in History. He worked at the Imperial War Museum and then for Thames Television for several years. In 1982, he formed a production company Flashback Television, for which he produced more than 300 TV documentaries for British and American broadcasters including several long-running series which have won many awards. He has recently written several popular history books.

His books include

  • 1942: Britain at the Brink
  • 1983: The World at the Brink (nominated for the Pushkin Book Prize)
  • Night Raid: The True Story of the First Victorious British Para Raid of WWII
  • Secret Warriors: Key Scientists, Code Breakers and Propagandists of the Great War
  • Breakdown: The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme
  • Spies In The Sky: The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence during World War II
  • The World at War
  • Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators: the Mavericks Churchill Led to Victory
  • Cold War with Sir Jeremy Isaacs
  • The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception

Downing is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

References

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  2. "Taylor Downing". www.latymerfoundation.org.
  3. "Bloomsbury - Taylor Downing - Taylor Downing". www.bloomsbury.com.


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