Anne Baker (author)
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Anne Baker (née Salmond) (born 1914) is a British writer of historical biographies.
Anne Salmond was born just before the outbreak of World War I, the daughter of Geoffrey Salmond who later became the professional head of the Royal Air Force. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and lived with her father and mother in both Egypt and India. She married Valentine Baker (1910–1979), and lived in Salisbury.
She has written:
- Morning Star (1972), The life of Florence Baker, wife of the explorer Sir Samuel Baker[1]
- Wings over Kabul (1975), Account of the Kabul Airlift, co-written with Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman
- A Question of Honour (1996), The Fall and Rise of Colonel Valentine Baker
- From Biplane to Spitfire: The Life of Air Chief Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond (2003)