David Truesdale took early retirement in 1998 and since then has written for films and television and produced battlefield guides for the Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum, The First Eagle: the 87th Foot at the Battle of Barrosa, and Regulars by God! The 89th Foot at the Battle of Lundy's Lane. For relaxation he paints in watercolor, listens to good music, drinks red wine and finds that Tommaso Albinoni (1671-1750) and his Oboe Concerto in D Minor has been an inspiration during difficult time in any manuscript.

John Young was born in London in 1956 and he has Irish roots on both the maternal and paternal sides of his family. He was educated in Blackheath and North-West London and has written for various publications - including Soldiers of the Queen: The Journal of the Victorian Military Society, in which he served as an officer of the society, before being elected as the Chairman of Anglo-Zulu War Research in 1991. The society was relaunched as the Anglo-Zulu War Royal Research Trust, in which John is the only officer of the Trust who is not a member of the Zulu Royal House. He is the author of They Fell Like Stones: The Battles and Casualties of the Zulu War, 1879 and Victoria's Harvest: The Irish Soldier in the Zulu War of 1879 (Helion, 2016) and is married with two adult sons.