Bruce Taylor was born in Chile in 1967 and educated at the University of Manchester and at Oxford where he received a doctorate in Modern History in 1996. He is author of The Battlecruiser HMS Hood: An Illustrated Biography, 1916–1941 (2005), co-author with Daniel Morgan of U-Boat Attack Logs: A Complete Record of Warship Sinkings from Original Sources, 1939–1945 (2011), and author of The End of Glory: War and Peace in HMS Hood (2012). He has lived in California since 1997 and makes his living as a freelance translator.