Adrian Weale (born 9 February 1964) is a British writer, journalist, illustrator and photographer of Welsh origin. He was educated at

Latymer Upper School (Slowly Therefore Surely) , established = , closed = , sister_school = Godolphin and Latymer School , type = Public schoolIndependent day school , head_label = H ...

, University of York, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the

Joint Services Command and Staff College Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) is a British military academic establishment providing training and education to experienced officers of the Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force, Ministry of Defence Civil Service, and serving offic ...

Biography

Weale was born in

Knightsbridge Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park. It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the West End. Toponymy Knightsbridge is an ancien ...

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

. Prior to becoming a professional author, he served as an officer in the

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

Intelligence Corps. He was compulsorily mobilised for active service in

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

in May 2003 and from July to December 2003 held the appointment of Deputy Governor of

Dhi Qar Dhi Qar Governorate ( ar, ذي قار, translit=Thi Qār, ) is a governorate in southern Iraq. The provincial capital is Nasiriyah. Prior to 1976 the governorate was known as Muntafiq Governorate. Thi Qar was the heartland of the ancient Iraqi civ ...

province in southern Iraq, seconded from the staff of

Multi-National Division (South-East) (Iraq) Multi-National Division (South-East) (MND(SE)) was a British commanded military division responsible for security in the south east of Iraq from 2003 to 2009. It was responsible for the large city of Basra (or Basrah) and its headquarters were loca ...

to the

Coalition Provisional Authority ) , capital = Baghdad , largest_city = capital , common_languages = ArabicKurdish English (''de facto'') , government_type = Transitional government , legislature = Iraqi Governing Council , title_leader = Administrator , leader1 = Jay ...

. From September 2003 he supervised a number of democratic local elections in towns in

province, the first to be held in Iraq, as well as co-ordinating reconstruction projects and liaising with Coalition security forces. He was succeeded in this role, after an interregnum, by

Rory Stewart Roderick James Nugent Stewart (born 3 January 1973) is a British academic, diplomat, author, broadcaster, former soldier and former politician. He is the president of GiveDirectly, a visiting fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for ...

. One of his books, ''Renegades: Hitler's Englishmen'' gives a detailed account of British traitors and collaborators during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

, including

William Joyce William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born fascist and Nazi propaganda broadcaster during the Second World War. After moving from New York to Ireland and subsequently to England, ...

John Amery John Amery (14 March 1912 – 19 December 1945) was a British fascist and Nazi collaborator during World War II. He was the originator of the British Free Corps, a volunteer Waffen-SS unit composed of former British and Dominion prisoners-o ...

and the

British Free Corps The British Free Corps (german: Britisches Freikorps; BFC) was a unit of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II, made up of British and Dominion prisoners of war who had been recruited by Germany. The unit was originally known as the ...

. Weale is a founding member of the British Armed Forces Federation (BAFF).

Works

*''Fighting Fit: The SAS Fitness Guide'' (1993). *''Renegades: Hitler's Englishmen'' (1994). *''Eyewitness: Hiroshima'' (1995). *''Green-Eyed Boys: 3 Para and the Battle for Mount Longdon'' (1996). *''Secret Warfare: Special Operations Forces from the Great Game to the SAS'' (1997) *''The Real SAS'' (1998). *''Jihad!: The Secret War In Afghanistan'' (2000). (Ghost Writer) *''Patriot Traitors: Roger Casement, John Amery and the Real Meaning of Treason'' (2001). *''Science and the Swastika'' (2001). *''The SS: A New History'' (2010). *''Army of Evil: A History of the SS'' (2012).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Weale, Adrian 1964 births Intelligence Corps officers English illustrators English male journalists Photographers from London English writers Living people People from Knightsbridge Alumni of the University of York Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst People educated at Latymer Upper School