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John Oakes was bombed by mistake by the Luftwaffe in World War II. educated in Cornwall, served in the Royal Air Force as a logistics and air movements officer, lived and worked in Libya for eight years and for three years in Fiji and Papua New Guinea. He travelled widely in Libya and Papua New Guinea, led field studies in Norway, met Jomo Kenyatta in Benghazi, Louis Leaky in the Serengeti, and John Steinbeck in Port Moresby. He was severely injured in Fiji and subsequently taught in one of the UK's oldest schools.
In 2009 he was commissioned by the History Press to write about juvenile participation in war and wrote 'Kitchener's Lost Boys' about the many underaged recruits volunteering for Kitchener's New Army when the Great War began. He went on to write about Libya. His latest book, War Lord, examines the events leading up to and following the fighting in Libya triggered by the Arab Spring.
He has written several papers for the War Child Journal and for the Journal of the Daniel Ceramic Circle. He is currently using his diaries recording his life as a boarders' House Master in Reading School to explore the link between boarding schools and imperialism.
