Books by Jonathon Riley

Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley is a General Officer with multinational operational command experience at all levels from platoon to corps in theatres from Northern Ireland to the Balkans, the Gulf, Iraq, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan; as such, he is well placed to penetrate, understand and to illuminate to the reader the challenges that an officer like Tony Farrar-Hockley faced in combat and in high command. He has been awarded the DSO and NATO Meritorious Service Medal and he is an Officer of the Legion of Merit of the United States of America. General Riley holds the degrees of MA and PhD in modern history and has seventeen published books including two biographies, one of which is that of General Sir Hugh Stockwell who held similar commands to AFH; he has also published A Matter of Honour: The Life, Campaigns and Generalship of Isaac Brock, in Canada for the bicentenary of the war of 1812. His book Napoleon as a General was nominated for the Army's Military History Book of the Year award. General Riley is currently Visiting Professor in War Studies at King's College London, a member of the British Commission for Military History, and Chairman of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers Museum Trust. He is retained as a technical expert by the International Criminal Court, has undertaken work with the International Committee of the Red Cross, and sits on two bodies advising the Welsh Government on matters related to the commemoration of the Great War.