Simon RiggeSimon Rigge has been a writer and editor since leaving Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He learned his trade under Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart and Barrie Pitt on Purnell's History of the Second World War, then under A. J. . Taylor and John Roberts on The History of the 20th Century, where he wrote articles on everything from the Italian Campaign of 1943-45 to Electricity in Everyday Life. On the picture side he worked with Germano Facetti and John Deakin, narrowly escaping being painted by Francis Bacon. After a short spell on the Observer Colour Magazine, he moved to Time-Life Books where he wrote and edited for The British Empire, a partwork history co-published with the BBC, The World's Wild Places and The Great Cities series. In 1979 he founded Sheldrake Press, where he has worked with many eminent authors. Read More Read Less