Eric Lee was born in New York City, lived most of his adult life on a kibbutz in Israel, and today lives in London. His most recent books are The August Uprising, 1924: The Georgian Anti-Soviet Revolt and the Birth of Democratic Socialism, Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge, April-May 1945 and The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution, 1918-21. All three concern the 20th century history of Georgia. He is also the author of three books of military history (Saigon to Jerusalem: Conversations with Israel’s Vietnam Veterans, Operation Basalt: The British Raid on Sark and Hitler’s Commando Order and Britain’s Plot to Kill Hitler: The True Story of Operation Foxley and SOE) and several books about the labour movement and the Internet. His next book is Mole: Stalin and the Okhrana. He is also the founding editor of LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement.