and post-war periods. These included two noted biographies of Winston Churchill, namely Churchill on the Home Front (1992) and Churchill: The Unexpected Hero (2005). From 1996, he was director of the Centre for Second World War Studies. He retired in 2005 and became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2006. His students included the future prime minister Gordon Brown. It has been argued that Addison's influence led to Brown's decision to raise the top rate of income tax during his premiership. Selected publications The Road to 1945, Jonathan Cape, 1975, Now the War is Over: A Social History of Britain, 1945-1951, Jonathan Cape, 1985, Churchill on the Home Front, Jonathan Cape, 1992, Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West 1939-1945, Paul Addison, Angus Calder ed., Pimlico, 1997, The Burning Blue: A New History of the Battle of Britain, Paul Addison, Jeremy Crang ed., Pimlico, 2000, Churchill: The Unexpected Hero, Oxford University Press, 2005, Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945, Pimlico, Paul Addison, Jeremy Crang ed., Pimlico, 2006, A Companion to Contemporary Britain, 1939-2000, Paul Addison, Harriet Jones ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2007, Winston Churchill, Oxford University Press, 2007, No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War Britain, Oxford University Press, 2010, References Further reading 1943 births 2020 deaths 20th-century British male writers 20th-century British writers 21st-century British male writers British historians British people of Native American descent Academics of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Historians of World War II Historians of the British Isles Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford People associated with the University of Oxford People from Whittington, Staffordshire English people of Native American descent