Sarah Wallis was born in America and moved to Britain as a child.She finished her degree in Russian and German the year the Berlin Wall came down.Sarah has worked on several major historical documentaries including the BBC series People's Century and the Channel 4 series The First World War. She lives in North London with her husband and their two children. Svetlana Palmer was born in Moscow.She has lived in Britain since 1990 and worked as a researcher and producer on major historical documentary series including the Bafta-nominated BBC/CNN series The Cold War, ITV's award-winning The Second World War In Colour and Channel 4's critically acclaimed The First World War.She lives in North London with her family. We Are Young And At War is their second book together.The first, A War In Words, was published in 2003.