Ian Patterson was born in 1948 and grew up in Cheshire and London. After reading English at Cambridge he worked as a further education teacher, translator and second-hand bookseller. He is now a fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, where he is Director of Studies in English. Ian has published numerous translations of poetry and prose, most recently FINDING TIME AGAIN, the final volume of Marcel Proust's IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME (Penguin). He has written half a dozen books of poetry, and in 2003 published TIME TO GET HERE: SELECTED POEMS 1969-2002 (Salt). His latest book, GUERNICA (Profile, 2007) looks at the consequences of total war, focusing on the German bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica in 1937.

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GUERNICA - One of the most fearsome developments of the twentieth century was the concept of total war - the belief that the most effective way of winning wars was through the obliteration, or the threat of...