James Holland is an historian, writer and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including Battle of Britain and Dam Busters.

He has presented - and written - a large number of television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic, History and Discovery.

He is co-founder of the Chalke Valley History Festival and co-founder of WarGen.org, an online Second World War resource site, and presents the Chalke Valley History Hit podcast.