About the Author

Tim Clayton is a former research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and the author of numerous articles and books, including The English Print, 1688-1802. He has also worked as a writer and producer of television documentaries, including Voices in the Dark, a film about the historian Carlo Ginzburg.

The late Philip R. Craig was the author of nineteen novels in the Martha's Vineyard Mystery series. A professor emeritus of English at Wheelock College in Boston, he loved the Vineyard and lived there year-round with his wife, Shirley.

Reviews

The Sunday Times (London) In the words of the ordinary people caught up in the war...[Finest Hour] is told with an immediacy that fiction could not achieve.

Terry W. Hartle The Christian Science Monitor Clayton and Craig make the story of this decisive engagement come alive.