A graduate of Bristol University and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Jonathan Trigg served as an infantry officer in the Royal Anglian Regiment, completing tours in Northern Ireland and Bosnia, as well as the Gulf. He is the author of over a dozen books of military history, including Death in the Fields: The IRA and East Tyrone (Merrion Press), and his book on the destruction of Hitler's Axis allies in Russia, Death on the Don, which was nominated for The Pushkin Prize for Russian history in 2014.