Captain Peter Hore RN rtd
Captain Peter Hore served worldwide as a logistician in the Royal Navy before spending ten years in the film and television industry, and then becoming a fulltime author. Peter’s interests include naval history, strategy and biography, and he has written over 1,200 obituaries for the Daily Telegraph. He has also skippered STC Wyvern to a gold medal in the Tall Ships Race, and walked the Camino de Santiago. As guest speaker he has appeared at Hay Festival and Chalke Valley History Festival, and his books include the award-winning Habit of Victory and HMAS Sydney, Cipher and Search. He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, Chartered Member of the Institute of Linguists, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society for Nautical Research, and an elected member of the Swedish Royal Society of Naval Sciences.