Rick Stroud is a writer and television director who has directed such actors as Pierce Brosnan, John Hurt, Ian Holme, David Suchet, Celia Imrie and Joanna Lumley. Earlier in his career he was the associate producer of "Brideshead Revisited". He has won an Emmy and been nominated for a BAFTA. He is the author of "The Book of the Moon "and "The Phantom Army of Alamein: How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel", and with Victor Gregg has written "Rifleman "and "King's Cross Kid". He is currently working on a book about the kidnapping by the SOE of General Kreipe from his he...