MARK FELTON s-a nascut in 1974 in Colchester, Marea Britanie, si a obtinut doctoratul in istorie americana la Universitatea din Essex. In prezent locuieste in China, impreuna cu sotia si fiul sau, unde tine prelegeri la Universitatea Fudan, Shanghai. A publicat in mai multe reviste de istorie si este autorul mai multor carti: Yanagi: The Secret Underwater Trade Between Germany and Japan, 1942–1945 (2005); Slaughter at Sea: War Crimes of the Imperial Japanese Navy (2007); Japan’s Gestapo: Murder, Mayhem and Torture in Wartime Asia (2009); The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese (2009); 21st Century Courage: Stirring Stories of Modern British Heroes (2010); The Last Nazis: Escaped But Not Forgotten (2011); The Devil’s Doctors: Japanese Human Experiments on Allied Prisoners of War (2012), Holocaust Heroes: Resistance to Hitler’s Final Solution (2016) si Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini’s Colditz (2017).