Richard Hough

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This article is about the historian. For the engineer, see Richard R. Hough.

Richard Hough is a British author and historian specializing in maritime history. He won the Daily Express Best Book of the Sea Award in 1972. After leaving school, he joined the RAF (Royal Air Force) at the beginning of the WWII (World War 2), and was stationed at an airfield not far from Hollywood. He later flew Hurricanes and Typhoons. He also writes as Bruce Carter.

He wrote:

aka The Perilous Descent into a Strange Lost World

  • The Deadly Freeze (1976)
  • Buzzbugs (1977)
  • Nightworld (1987)

aka The Children Who Stayed Behind

[edit] Bibliography as Richard Hough

  • The Fleet that had to Die" [1]
  • Admirals in Collision [1]
  • Dreadnought: a History of the Modern Battleship [1]
  • First Sea Lord: a life of Admiral Lord Foster [1]
  • The Hunting of Fotrce Z [1]
  • The Blind Horn's Hate [1]
  • Captain Bligh & Mr. Christian [1]
  • Louis and Victoria: the First Mountbattens" [1]
  • Mounbatten: hero of out Time [1]
  • The Pursuit of Admiral von Spee [1]
  • The Ace of Clubs: a History of the Garrick [1]
  • The Battle of Britain: the Jubilee History (with co-author Denis Richards) [1]
  • Winston & Clementine: the Triumphs & Tragedies of the Churchills [1]
  • Bless our Ship: Mountbatten and the Kelly [1]
  • Other Days Around Me (Biography) [1]
  • The Great Admirals, Richard Hough, William Morrow and Company, New York, 1977 ISBN 0-688-03183-8
  • Edward and Alexandra: Their Private and Public Lives, by Richard Hough
  • The Potemkin Mutiny, by Richard Hough

"Bullers Guns" by Richard Hough "Bullers Dreadnought" by Richard Hough "Bullers Victory" by Richard Hough

[edit] Bibliography as Bruce Carter

  • The Perilous Descent (Children's) [1]
  • Speed Six! (Children's) [1]
  • Kidnapping of Kensington (Children's) [1]
  • Razor Eyes(Children's) [1]
  • Miaow (Children's) [1]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Detail taken from a copy of Other Days Around Me published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1992 with an ISBN of 0 340 55221 2


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