Sons and Soldiers (Henderson) - Author Bio

Author Bio
Bruce Henderson is an American journalist and author of more than 20 nonfiction books. He served in Vietnam with the U.S. Navy from 1965-67, after which he headed to college on the G.I. Bill. After graduating, Henderson worked as an investigative reporter for several newspapers, including the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and, as an associate editor, for New West and California Magazine.

In 1991 Henderson co-wrote And the Sea Will Tell with Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor of Charles Manson. The book reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and later became a CBS miniseries.

Most recently, Henderson published his 2017 Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler.

In between those two books, he published other bestsellers, including his 2015 Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II. The book is an account of the February 23, 1945, raid that freed more than 2,000 civilian prisoners of war — American men, women and children, as well as other Allied nationalities — from an Japanese internment camp in the Philippines.

In 2010 Henderson released Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War, the story of Dieter Dengler. A U.S. Navy pilot, Dengler was shot down over Laos in January, 1966, escaping from a POW camp six months later. Henderson and Dengler served on the same aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CVA-61) in 1965–66.
 
True North: Peary, Cook, and The Race to the Pole, out in 2005, examines the ongoing controversy regarding the race to the North Pole—who reached it first: Robert Peary in 1909 or Frederick Cook in 1908? Henderson's other Arctic title, Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition, released in 2001, tells the story of the ill-fated Charles Francis Hall expedition to the North Pole.

An experienced collaborative writer, Henderson co-authored Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality, the autobiography of African-American theoretical physicist Ronald Mallett. That was in 2006. Working with Dean Allison in 2014, he published Ring of Deceit: Inside the Biggest Sports and Bank Scandal in History, which chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of boxing promoter and convicted swindler, Harold Smith.

Henderson has taught writing courses at University of Southern California School of Journalism and Stanford University. He lives in Melo Park, California. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 8/4/2017.)