ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bill Yenne is the author of more than three dozen nonfiction books, especially on aviation and military history. For Penguin Random House, these have included Big Week, the story of the turning point in the air war against Germany, and Aces High, the dual biography of Dick Bong and Tommy McGuire, the top-scoring American aces of World War II, which was described by pilot and bestselling author Dan Roam as “the greatest flying story of all time.”

General Wesley Clark called Mr. Yenne’s recent biography of Alexander the Great the “best yet.” The New Yorker wrote of Sitting Bull, Mr. Yenne’s biography of the great Lakota leader, that it “excels as a study in leadership.”

Mr. Yenne has contributed to encyclopedias of both world wars and has appeared in documentaries broadcast on the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, and ARD German Television. A member of the American Aviation Historical Society, he lives in San Francisco, and on the Web at billyenne.com.