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James Owen (born 1969) is a British author and journalist.

Owen was born in Holland Park, London, and was educated at Eton College and University College, Oxford. After a brief period as a barrister, he worked for The Daily Telegraph newspaper as a journalist from 1995 - 2001. In 2004, with Guy Walters, he edited The Voice of War, an anthology of World War II memoirs, diaries and letters. In 2005, he published A Serpent in Eden, an investigation of the unsolved murder in The Bahamas in 1943 of Sir Harry Oakes. This was filmed as a drama documentary, entitled Murder in Paradise, for the UK's Channel 4 and broadcast in December 2006. That year, Owen also published Nuremberg: Evil On Trial, a re-examination on its 60th anniversary of the case conducted against the leading Nazis after the Second World War. His most recent publication is Danger UXB, which tells the story of the early days of Bomb Disposal during the Battle of Britain and The Blitz through the experiences of many of those involved in the work, including Bertram Stuart Trevelyan Archer and Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk .

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