J.P. Stone is a British historian and writer based in the United States. He was born in Winchester, England and has been self-educated via the altogether unsociable practice of reading non-fiction since childhood. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force in 2001. Over the course of the ensuing decade and a bit, he served across four continents, including operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and was discharged in 2013. He is married and lives in Dallas, Texas.