Roger Howard is a British journalist and historian specializing in the Middle East. He is the author of THE OIL HUNTERS: Exploration and Espionage in the Middle East, 1880-1929 and IRAN IN CRISIS?  His articles have appeared in the Guardian, the London Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Independent, the Wall Street Journal, The Spectator, the New Statesman, the International Herald Tribune, and many other newspapers and journals. He has a specialized knowledge of Middle Eastern defense issues, having written extensively on Iran’s nuclear program for RUSI and Chatham House.

Books by Roger Howard

Operation Damocles: Israel's Secret War Against Hitler's Scientists

by Roger Howard - History, Jewish Interest, Military, Nonfiction

From 1951 to 1967, Egypt pursued a secret program to build military rockets that could have conceivably posed a threat to neighboring Israel. Because such an ambitious project required Western expertise, the Egyptian leader president Nasser hired West German scientists, many of them veterans of the Nazi rocket program at Peenemünde and elsewhere. These covert plans soon came to the attention of Israel’s legendary secret service, Mossad, and caused deep alarm in Tel Aviv.