Patrick Bishop was born in London in 1952 and went to Wimbledon College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Before joining the Telegraph he worked on the Evening Standard, the Observer and the Sunday Times and in television as a reporter on Channel Four News. He is the author with John Witherow of a history of the Falkands War based on their own experiences and with Eamon Mallie of The Provisional IRA which was praised as the first authoritative account of the modern IRA. He also wrote a memoir the first Gulf War, Famous Victory and a history of the Irish diaspora The Irish Empire, based on the TV series which he devised.
Books in order of publication:
The Provisional IRA – 1987
The Irish Empire: The Story Of The Irish Abroad – 2000
Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940 – 2004
3 Para – 2007
Bomber Boys – Fighting Back 1940 – 1945 – 2007
A Good War – 2008
Ground Truth: 3 Para – Return to Afghanistan – 2009
Battle of Britain: A Day-by-Day Chronicle: 10 July 1940 to 31 October 1940 – 2009
Follow Me Home – 2011
Target Tirpitz: X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters – The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler’s Mightiest Warship – 2012
Battle for the Falklands: The Winter War – 2012
Wings: One Hundred Years of British Aerial Warfare – 2012
Target Tirpitz – 2013
The Reckoning – 2014
The Cooler King: The True Story of William Ash – Spitfire Pilot, P.O.W and WWII’s Greatest Escaper – 2015
Churchill’s Funeral: The End of Empire – 2015
Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two – Spearhead of Victory – 2017
Man Who Was Saturday – 2019
Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and The Sacrifice – 2021
Paris ’44: The Shame and the Glory – 2024
Paris 1944: Occupation, Resistance, Liberation: A Social History – 2024
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