About the Author

Patrick Bishop was born in 1952. He joined the Observer in 1979 and covered Ireland for that paper for three years before going to the Falklands with the Task Force. The Winter War, which he wrote with John Witherow, records his experience in the Falklands. He has been on the staff of ITN, and the Sunday Times and is now a correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph. Eamonn Mallie was born in 1951 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He has worked for several years as a political journalist in Ireland. He is a regular contributor to nationally networked programmes on Independent Radio and LBC and is political correspondent with Downtown Radio in Belfast.