A native of Wolyn, Tadeusz Piotrowski and his family lived under both the Soviet and the German occupations of Poland's eastern territories until August 1943. He is a professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester. He is also the author of The Polish Deportees of World War II (2004), Poland's Holocaust (1998) and Vengeance of the Swallows (1995), all from McFarland. He lives in Manchester.