John D. Buckley is Professor of Military History at the University of Wolverhampton. He teaches and publishes on twentieth-century military and strategic studies, especially on air power and the final year of World War II.
His books and articles analyse maritime air power in the inter-war period and during World War II, most notably a study of RAF Coastal Command, and on various other aspects of air power including strategic bombing, British inter-war defence policy, and air power and total war.[1] His best-known works are Air Power in the Age of Total War (1999), British Armour in the Normandy Campaign (2004) and the edited collection, The Normandy Campaign 1944: Sixty Years On (2006). With George Kassimeris, he is editor of The Ashgate Companion to Modern Warfare. London: Ashgate, 2009. ISBN 9780754674108. He is currently working for Yale University Press on "Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Northwest Europe, 1944-5", which will analyze the performance of the British Army during the final stage of World War II.