John Jordan is a former teacher of modern languages. He is the author of two major books on the Soviet Navy, and has coauthored a series of books for Seaforth Publishing on the French Navy, of which the most recent are French Battleships of World War One (2017) and French Armoured Cruisers 1887-1932 (2019) with Philippe Caresse. John is also the sole author of Warships After Washington, published by Seaforth in 2011; a sequel, Warships After London, was published in autumn 2020. John has been associated with Warship from its earliest beginnings and took over the editorship in 2004.
