William Stevenson was born in Britain in 1925. He served as an aircraft pilot in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy during World War II and later moved to Canada where he worked for the Toronto Star. Stevenson traveled the globe, operating as the Star’s one-man foreign service and covering conflicts in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Stevenson is the author of nine books, including international bestseller A Man Called Intrepid. He died in 2013 in Toronto, Canada. Uri Dan was born in 1935. A veteran Israeli journalist, he served as the chief correspondent of Maariv, an Israeli newspaper, and as the Israel correspondent for the New York Post. Dan gained fame as the spokesman and confidante of Israel’s former prime minister Ariel Sharon. He died in 2006.