Soldier, Spy: A Survivor's Tale - Hardcover

Victor Gregg, born in London in 1919 served in the Rifle Brigade, notably at the Battle of Alamein, and then with the Parachute Regiment at the Battle of Arnhem. A prisoner of war, he survived the bombing of Dresden to be repatriated in 1946. He lives in Winchester. Rifleman, and the prequel, King's Cross Kid, were co-written with Rick Stroud.

Writer and director, Rick Stroud, also wrote The Book of the Moon, The Phantom Army of Alamein and, most recently, Kidnap in Crete. He lives in London.

"A gripping life-story: an incident-packed account of heartache, violence and cunning by a man whose will to survive and unbreakable optimism are a true inspiration." ―Independent on RIFLEMAN

"Completely fascinating . . . It has an immediate power throughout that makes war fiction a shadow of the real thing." ―Conn Iggulden on RIFLEMAN

"As action-packed as any fiction, and yet this is no novel . . . His is truly an astonishing story." ―James Holland on RIFLEMAN

"Evocative, detailed and unsentimental--gets us wonderfully close-up to the London of the 1930s viewed through the unblinking eyes of a working-class boy relishing every new experience." ―David Kynaston on KING'S CROSS KID