John A Rodgaard

Captain John A Rodgaard (Rtd) took on the writing and the completion of this book after the death in 2007 of the original author John Moore. Before turning to research and writing, he served for 41 years with the US Navy, including 29 years as an intelligence officer. He co-authored A Call to the Sea, the biography of Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution, and is now co-editor of the Trafalgar Chronicle, the yearbook of the 1805 Club, of which he is the Chairman.