Alec Nesbitt is a writer of many talents: novelist, historian, scriptwriter, speechwriter, biographer, lecturer, humorist, editor. Educated at Oxford, he was a student of A.J.P. Taylor, the celebrated Don of History at Magdalen College with whom he studied the formation and decline of the German Empire. He holds the Oxford University Certificate - with commendation - from the Ruskin School of Fine Art. Fluent in French and German, Alec has lived many years in England, France, Germany and Ireland. "The Sparrow Trilogy" is the result of a lifetime spent observing and listening to the subtleties