About the Author

Ed Gorman and Simon Pearson are both Times journalists and published authors. Ed is a veteran news and war correspondent, who recently published an autobiographical memoir, Death of a Translator. Simon is the Obituaries editor of The Times. He wrote The Great Escaper, a biography of Roger Bushell, "Big X" of Stalag Luft III, which was published by Hodder & Stoughton and became a bestseller in 2013-14.