About the Author:

Warren Trest is a former United States Air Force senior historian. He was a combat reporter and air power historian in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and the Cold War. Serving with the Third Infantry Division in Korea, he received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star while reporting on the war.

During his thirty-plus years as a military historian, he authored and coauthored more than 50 histories and studies. He spent two years in Southeast Asia with Project CHECO (Current Historical Examination of Combat Operations) writing and researching special studies on the air war, for which he received the Pacific Air Forces civilian of the year award in 1967 and the Medal for Civilian Service in Vietnam in 1968.

In 1969, while with the CHECO office at HQ Pacific Air Forces, he had a key role in PACAF's participation in Project Corona Harvest, the CSAF-directed evaluation of doctrinal lessons learned in Vietnam. Together with other members of the PACAF team, he produced a series of critical studies on the use of air power in Southeast Asia.

Trest was the major command historian with HQ United States Air Forces in Europe, and at HQ Air Training Command in San Antonio, TX. He also served as historian with HQ Third Air Force in England, with the Kanto Base Command in Japan, and with the 314th Air Division in Korea. Before becoming senior historian with the Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell AFB, AL, he was chief of the histories division in the Office of Air Force History, HQ United States Air Force.

He received the Award for Meritorious Civilian Service in 1975 and the Outstanding Civilian Career Service Award in 1996. He is a native of Louisville, Mississippi, and a graduate of East Central Jr. College, and Southern Mississippi University. He is now retired and resides with his wife in Montgomery, Alabama.

His biography of Korean War ace, Lt. Gen. Charles "Chick" Cleveland will be published in late 2011.

He is presently working on the sequels to "Missing in Paradise", the first book in the Jake Falcon Mysteries series.