Joshua Levine

Joshua Levine is an historian and author of bestselling history, including the Sunday Times and New York Times #1 bestseller, Dunkirk (William Collins, 2017), On a Wing and a Prayer (William Collins, 2008) telling the story of aerial combat in the Great War,  a prize-winning history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Beauty & Atrocity (William Collins, 2010), Operation Fortitude (William Collins, 2011), The Secret History of the Blitz (Simon & Schuster, 2015) and the authorised Illustrated History of the SAS (William Collins, 2023), written with full cooperation of the regiment and with full and exclusive access to its archives.

Joshua practised as a barrister for several years before becoming an actor and a writer. His plays have been performed on the London stage and on BBC Radio 4, and he has scripted a television documentary about eighteenth-century London for BBC2. He was the primary researcher for the television productions Forgotten Voices Of The Great War and Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War.

Joshua regularly acts as an Historical Consultant on feature films and dramas — on Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and most recently on Steve McQueen’s Blitz. He is at work on a new book: The End of the Beginning, a history of the North Africa campaign and the birth of the UK/US special relationship in the Second World War.

Photo courtesy of Cammie Toloui