Duncan Barrett is a writer and editor, specialising in biography and memoir. He grew up in London and studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge. In 2010 he edited the First World War memoirs of pacifist saboteur Ronald Skirth, published as The Reluctant Tommy. He is co-author, with Nuala Calvi, of The Sugar Girls, which was a Sunday Times top-ten bestseller for eight weeks and ranked second in the history bestsellers of 2012. This was followed in 2013 by GI Brides, which also went straight into the UK non-fiction paperback charts, and was a New York Times bestseller in America. His most recent book, Men of Letters: The Post Office Heroes Who Fought the Great War, was published in August 2014, and was nominated for the People's Book Prize.