H. A. (Henry Albert) Jones

A British historian and author, Henry Albert Jones is chiefly remembered for his work on The War in the Air, the official history of the Royal Air Force in the First World War. After Sir Walter Raleigh began the project, Jones carried it forward and wrote most of the later volumes, helping shape one of the major documentary histories of the conflict.

Sources available here also describe him as the British government's official air historian and note that he produced 31 published works connected with the history of the war in the air. Later in his career, he was seconded to the Cabinet Office, then to the Air Staff Secretariat in 1939, and became Director of Public Relations at the Air Ministry in 1944.

His writing will appeal to listeners who enjoy military history grounded in records and firsthand material. Even when dealing with large events and complex campaigns, his work aims to make the development of early air power understandable and vivid.