Taylor Downing is a historian and writer whose best selling books include works on the First and Second World Wars and the Cold War. Taylor also writes on the history of film and television.
Books in order of publication:
| The Troubles | 1980 |
| Civil War | 1992 |
| Olympia | 1993 |
| Cold War | 1998 |
| Battle Stations: Decisive Weapons of the Second World War | 2000 |
| Churchill’s War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators: the Mavericks Who Brought Britain Victory | 2010 |
| Spies in the Sky: The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence During World War II | 2011 |
| The World at War | 2012 |
| Night Raid The True Story of the First Victorious British | 2013 |
| Secret Warriors: The Spies, Scientists and Code Breakers of World War I | 2014 |
| Breakdown: The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme, 1916 | 2016 |
| 1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink | 2018 |
| 1983: The World at the Brink | 2019 |
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