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David Stafford is an historian and former diplomat who has written extensively on espionage, intelligence, and the Second World War. Married and based in Edinburgh, Scotland, he is currently Project Director at the Centre for The Study of The Two World Wars at the University of Edinburgh.
For many years he lived in Canada, where from 1986-1992 he was Executive Director of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. He has frequently acted as a TV and radio consultant, has written radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the BBC, and his latest book, Ten Days to D-Day, formed the basis for a Channel Four two-part Docudrama.
He is a regular book reviewer, appearing in The Times (London), The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times, the Times Herald Tribune (Paris), and Saturday Night and the Globe and Mail (Toronto).
David Stafford was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has degrees from Cambridge University and the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science), and when he is not writing books is an avid reader of fiction and a devotee of the operas of Mozart.
In April 2005 he was appointed by the Prime Minister to write the official history of SOE in Italy ( Part Two, 1943-1945)
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