Channa Wickremesekera is an independent scholar and obtained his PhD from Monash University, Australia. He is the author of Best Black Troops in the World (2002) and Kandy at War (2004).
'... it is yet convenient to have a book of reference for the major events of a conflict that took such a long tragic course for practically the parties concerned.' V.Krishna Ananth, Sikkim University, Studies in People's History