Richard Collier, was born in London, England in 1924. He joined the Royal Air Force at eighteen after that, as a war correspondent, he traveled throughout the Far East.
He worked on numerous British and American magazines and wrote more than half a dozen books about the Second World War.
I enjoyed much of the book with a nice intermingling of individual personal stories with the overall world wide developments in 1941. I was not so keen on the scene setting descriptions of the weather or vegetation. A disappointing ending given the conclusion was at the end of the year the path was set for victory when as outlined in the previous book I read 1942 was also set to be a year of repeated disasters.