Bruce Barrymore Halpenny

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Bruce Barrymore Halpenny is a respected British military historian, specialising in airfields & aircraft. He also writes ghost stories and mysteries.

[edit] Life and career

Bruce Barrymore Halpenny's father was a Canadian First World War soldier and his mother a British First World War munitions worker. Bruce Halpenny himself served in the Royal Air Force Police on Special Duties and in the Nuclear Division.

In the early period of his writing career he started out by writing love stories and cowboy stories for the American market under pen names. Then because of his specialist knowledge of the Royal Air Force, he focused on military history.

He researched British RAF airfield histories, particularly those of London, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. He found that public records held very little if any information at all, so he had to do all the research himself going back to the very beginning. This helped to unearth a rich source of information, which others have since used.

Later he wrote ghost and mystery stories in a series of Ghost Stations books; he has also written various other works about aircraft such as English Electrical/BAC Lightning, English Electric Canberra: The History and Development of a Classic Jet, and Avro Vulcan: The History and Development of a Classic Jet.

[edit] Family

Bruce and his wife, Marian Rose Halpenny, have a son, Baron Barrymore Halpenny, a commercial artist.

[edit] Books

Note: this list is incomplete

1. Bomber Aircrew of World War II: True Stories of Frontline Air Combat (Paperback) (ISBN 978-1844150663 )
2. To Shatter the Sky: Bomber Airfield at War (Hardcover) (ISBN 978-0850596786)
3. Action Stations: Wartime Military Airfields of Lincolnshire and the East Midlands v. 2 (Hardcover) (ISBN 978-0850594843)
4. Action Stations: Military Airfields of Yorkshire v. 4 (Hardcover) (ISBN 978-0850595321)
5. Action Stations: Military Airfields of Greater London v. 8 (Hardcover) (ISBN 978-0850595857)
6. Fighter Pilots in World War II: True Stories of Frontline Air Combat (Paperback) (ISBN 978-1844150656)
7. Fight for the Sky: Stories of Wartime Fighter Pilots (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0850597493)
8. Little Nellie (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0907595755)
9. Bullets in the Morning...Bullets at Night: The Italian Campaign (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0954777418)
10. Ghost Stations (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0863033148)
11. Aaargh! (Paperback) - Later became Ghost Stations 2 (ISBN 978-0907595557)
12. Ghost Stations: No. 3 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0907595571)
13. Ghost Stations: No. 4 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0907595762)
14. Ghost Stations: No. 5 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0907595816)
15. Ghost Stations: No. 6 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0907595861)
16. Ghost Stations: No. 7 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0907595977)
17. Ghost Stations: No. 8 (Paperback) (ISBN ?)
18. Wartime Poems (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0907595694)
19. ENGLISH ELECTRIC/BAC LIGHTNING (Osprey air combat) (Hardcover) (ISBN 978-0850455625)
20. English Electric Canberra: The History and Development of a Classic Jet (Hardcover) (ISBN 978-1844152421)
21. Avro Vulcan: The History and Development of a Classic Jet (Hardcover) (ISBN 978-1844154265)