Michael Napier is the author of six books on aspects of aviation and military history, including the highly successful Royal Air Force - A Centenary of Operations, published by Osprey. He is an authority on the history of No 14 Sqn RAF, a unit which operated the Wellington in the anti-submarine role. Michael is an ex-RAF Tornado GR 1 pilot and has been an airline pilot for the last 21 years. He lives near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. Janusz Swiatlon lives in Krakow, Poland. A veteran of service with the Polish Army's 6th Pomorska Dywizja Powietrzno-Desantowa (an airborne unit) in the 1980s, he is both an enthusiast of aviation historian and a military modeler. As an illustrator, he has created numerous colour aircraft profiles published in magazines and books by AF Editores, Kagero, Chevron, Stratus and other publishing houses, including Osprey.