Robert Widders

Robert Widders is an English author, war historian, and veteran of all three British Armed Forces: the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force.

He was educated at Belle Vale Primary and Gateacre Comprehensive schools in Liverpool before starting a career in the armed forces. and The Emperor's Irish Slaves: Prisoners of the Japanese in the Second World War. Spitting on a Soldier's Grave is held in the collection of the Imperial War Museum.