Neil Hanson is the author of a dozen acclaimed works of narrative non-fiction, including The Unknown Soldier, The Confident Hope of a Miracle, The Custom of the Sea and The Dreadful Judgement. They have been hailed by critics around the world as ‘astonishing’, ‘brilliant’, ‘haunting’, ‘extraordinary’, ‘a triumph’ and ‘a masterpiece’, and compared by one to ‘Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and a dozen other immortals’.