Nigel Cawthorne is the author of Military Commanders and Vietnam - A War Lost and Won. His writing has appeared in over a hundred and fifty newspapers, magazines and partworks - from the Sun to the Financial Times and from Flatbush Life to the New York Tribune. He lives in London.
His son, Colin Cawthorne helped to compile the fi rst-hand accounts that make up this anthology. They have previously worked together on The Mammoth Book of the Mafia.