Bob Crew is a former International Correspondent for The Times. He read English Literature at the University of London and spent a lifetime in journalism specialising in international and business affairs. He did his national service with the British Army in the Royal Corps of Signals in Cyprus and Germany. He is the author of Gurkha Warriors and The Beheading and Other True Stories, currently in the bookshops, in the former of which he interviewed HRH Prince Charles, and following Queen Elizabeths coronation in 1953, he won one of her coronation prizes for the most outstanding school children in her realm. As it happens, so did another school boy, back then, Paul McCartney, of future Beatles fame. Bob Crew is also a former Financial Times business journalist and he has lived in Hampstead Garden Suburb in North London for 37 years.