Patrol

Fred Majdalany was born in Manchester and worked as a journalist and theatre publicist before the outbreak of the Second World War, where he served in North Africa and Italy and was awarded the Military Cross. After the war he continued his work as a journalist and wrote several books on military history.

Alan Jeffreys is a curator at the Imperial War Museum and is an expert on tactics and training for jungle warfare and the British Army in the Far East during World War II.