KEN WHARTON is now in the second half of his 60s. He is a former solider turned writer who lives on the Gold Coast in Queensland. An ex-football referee and a veteran of 500 skydives, he is a chronicling the Troubles and takes as his standpoint the position of the Security Forces and the innocent civilians - and refuses to allow history to be rewritten. He is the acclaimed author of eleven books on the Troubles. He has been interviewed numerous times by BBC Radio and was associate producer on the History Channel's Soldiers' Stories: Northern Ireland. He gave a lecture on the Troubles to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst in 2016.
