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Richard Guilliatt has been a journalist for 30 years. He was a feature writer at The AGE newspaper, before moving to New York in 1986 to work as a freelance writer. His work has appeared in many leading newspapers and magazines, including THE INDEPENDENT, THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORK TIMES and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES. In 2000 he won Australia's highest award for magazine feature writing, the Walkley Award. Peter Hohnen was a partner in a prominent Canberra law firm for 20 years. A commander in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve for two decades, he was posted to Cambridge University in 1999 to study the law of the sea and the laws of armed conflict as a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He has been an independent legal consultant to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra and has made several contributions to the AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY. His great-uncle, Alexander Ross Ainsworth, was chief engineer aboard the steamship MATUNGA when it was captured by SMS WOLF in August 1917.
