Elliott Roosevelt was a distinguished wartime pilot and aviation official. The son of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he joined the US Army Air Corps a year before the United States joined the Second World War and was promoted to the post of brigadier general within a few years. Meanwhile, he established new techniques in night photography and meteorological data-gathering and commanded the multinational aerial reconnaissance wing, playing an important part in the D-Day landings. After the war, he took up various vocations, including breeding of Arabian horses, concurrently beginning to write, publishing ‘As He Saw It’ in 1946. It was followed by 'The Roosevelts of Hyde Park: An Untold Story', ' A Rendezvous with Destiny ' and 'Mother R.: Eleanor Roosevelt's Untold Story.' He also wrote a series of mystery novels, in which he cast his mother as an amateur detective. He died at the age of eighty from heart failure.