About the Author

Dee La Vardera is a freelance writer living in Wiltshire with an interest in social and military history and a love of Italy. A member of the Society of Authors and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists (SWWJ), she has written features for national and regional magazines and newspapers, as well as writing a series of local history books. She co-wrote 'Survivor of the Long March, Five Years as a POW, 1940-1945' with Charles Waite, who died aged 92 in 2012, shortly after its publication.