Eric Victor Rendel was born in 1926 and grew up in Wallasey, Wirral, a small seaside town on the Northwest coast of England. By the author’s early teens, Britain was at war with Germany, and within a few years, the writer had enlisted in His Majesty’s Royal Navy, serving on an illustrious naval vessel as a coder in the Southeast Asia theater of operations towards the end of World War II. Upon return to Britain, he embarked on many unsatisfying careers before finally emigrating from the UK to America. Once there, he eventually settled successfully in the real estate business and lived in California for many decades. Towards the end of his life, encouraged by his six children and one granddaughter, he wrote this first and only volume in his intended trilogy, describing it as “a ragbag of my childhood and young adult memories. So many adventures. And so many more for the next two books!” Eric Rendel died in 2014. |
