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Sebastian Faulks was born and brought up in Newbury, Berkshire. He worked in journalism before starting to write books. He is best known for the French trilogy, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (1989-1997) and is also the author of a triple biography, The Fatal Englishman (1996); a small book of literary parodies, Pistache (2006); and the novels Human Traces (2005), Engleby (2007) and A Week in December (2009). He lives in London with his wife and their three children. Jorg Hensgen was born in Germany and studied at the universities of Wuppertal, Gottingen and Hamburg. He now lives in the UK and works as a publisher.
The range is international, the impeccable standards of writing never dip. This is some of the finest writing about war * Independent on Sunday * An anthology that tries, in a century that has made an art form of killing, to make sense of it all * Guardian * A substantial and compelling read * Metro *
