About the Author

Freelance journalist Ross Reyburn, who has revived his late father Wallace Reyburn's dramatic eyewitness account of the ill-fated Dieppe Raid, is a former newspaper feature writer and non-fiction book reviewer.

From 1967-1973, he worked as a journalist with the Hampstead & Highgate Express, the North London weekly hailed as the only local newspaper in Britain with a foreign policy! Later came a long career with The Birmingham Post, as a feature writer latterly also serving as the regional daily newspaper's literary editor before going freelance in 2003.

His books include Saving Rugby Union (Y Lolfa, 2020) and The Great Rivals - Oxford and Cambridge (2010), a Pitkin Guide comparing the achievements of the world's two most famous universities.