About the Author

Dr Ducellier was a young boy living in the Somme region of France when the Germans invaded in 1940 and the stories of that time were indelibly imprinted in his memory. Many years later he began to enquire into the truth behind the many stories of the war that he had been told - the truth turned out to be even more remarkable than the legend. He is the author of several works in the French language, but this is his first to be translated into English.