John Bierman was a journalist and biographer who for 25 years covered trouble spots all over the world for major news organizations in Britain, the USA and Canada.
For 10 years he was a staff correspondent for BBC Television News and BBC World Service, and spent much of that time in the Middle East, where he discovered the story of Raoul Wallenberg, then virtually unknown.
He has co-authored two books with journalist Colin Smith, including Alamein, War Without Hate, published by Penguin.
John Bierman died in 2006.
