About the Author

Barry Renfrew is a military historian and foreign correspondent who has covered wars in Afghanistan, Russia, Africa and elsewhere. Front line experience in Chechnya and other conflict zones has helped him understand what soldiers through the ages have faced on the battlefield.

Much of his work centres on British colonial military history. Publications include: Forgotten Regiments, Wings of Empire and Britain’s Black Regiments. He and his wife Margaret are the authors of British Colonial Badges Vols. 1 & 2, the definitive illustrated guide to the military insignia of the British Empire used by museums, auction houses and collectors around the world.

He also writes historical fiction as B. Renfrew. His latest book is Hastings, 1066, part of the Field of Blood series which retells some of the great battles of British history. Based on the chronicles and records of the times, the Field of Blood books are dramatic, minute-by-minute accounts of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the commanders and soldiers on both sides.