"A superb example of war reporting at its best."--From the Introduction by Mark Bowden "The book's secret is the simple secret of all good reporting--fidelity and detail." --Time

Richard Tregaskis was a writer and reporter. He received the Overseas Press Club's George Polk Award in 1964 for first-person reporting under hazardous circumstances. He died in 1973. Moana Tregaskis was a longtime journalist for The New York Times.