Bruce Hen­der­son is the author of more than twen­ty non­fic­tion books, includ­ing Sons and Sol­diers: The Untold Sto­ry of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazi and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler, and True North: Peary, Cook and the Race to the Pole. He is the co-author of the #1 New York Times best­seller And the Sea Will Tell (with Vin­cent Bugliosi). An award-win­ning jour­nal­ist who has taught report­ing and writ­ing at USC School of Jour­nal­ism and Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, Hen­der­son lives in north­ern California.