Foot, M. R. D.

M. R. D. Foot, CBE, is an historian and former wartime intelligence officer. He was Professor of Modern History at Manchester University (1967-73) and has been involved with a number of works, including writing many books on the SOE and editing the first four volumes of the Gladstone Diaries. He was
also Consultant Editor of The Oxford Companion to World War II (1995, paperback edition 2001).