Anthony Mockler has traveled widely as a foreign correspondent, especially in Africa. His previous books are Mercenaries; Our Enemies the French (An Account of the Syrian Campaign of June/July 1941); Francis of Assisi: The Wandering Years; and Lions Under the Throne.  He has just published his first children’s book. King Arthur and His Knights, also with Oxford University Press. Educated at Downside and Jesus College, Cambridge (where he obtained Double First Class Honors in the Classical Tripos), he subsequently studied Italian at Perugia University.  He was fortunate enough to spend a year in Ethiopia before the deposition of Haile Selassie, during which he did much of the research for this massive project. He continued it in Italy and completed the revision and the writing more recently as a Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford.  Like all who have been there, he remains fascinated by Ethiopia and the Ethiopians.