Bill Yenne is the award-winning author of three dozen books on historical topics especially non-fiction books on military history and hardware. His various works have been translated into six languages. He has contributed to encyclopedias of both world wars, and his work has been selected for the official Chief of Staff of the Air Force Reading List. Yenne has appeared in documentaries airing on the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, the Smithsonian Channel, ARD German Television, and NHK Japanese Television. His book signings have been covered by C-SPAN. 

Among his fiction works are the Raptor Force action-adventure series and the Bladen Cole Western series, both published by Berkley (PenguinRandomHouse).

He is the recipient of the Air Force Association’s Gill Robb Wilson Award for the “most outstanding contribution in the field of arts and letters [as an] author whose [many] works have shaped how thousands of Americans understand and appreciate airpower.” (Previous Gill Robb Wilson Awardees include Edward R. Murrow, Ted Koppel, Tom Brokaw and Tom Clancy.)

Bill Yenne grew up inside Montana’s remote and rugged Glacier National Park, where his father was the supervisor of backcountry trails. He spent his summers on foot or on horseback in the remote mountains, and his winters becoming a voracious reader and history buff. 

In the course of gathering material for his books, Yenne has traveled far and wide. He followed the entire 3,000 miles of the Lewis and Clark Trail; he flew in the jump seat of a B-52 bomber on a training flight for a classified Cold War mission; he fired a Thompson submachine gun in an organized shooting competition (and did pretty well); and he has climbed to the top of two dozen Gothic cathedrals across Europe. He is also an amateur silver medalist in the annual Kauai Canoe Club outrigger races.

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