John Hammond Moore was born in Houlton, Maine, in 1924. As a young man, he was quartermaster on board the LSMR-193 during the Okinawa campaign. In addition to reaching at Winthrop College and Georgia Stare University, he has worked in both journalism and book publishing. He was senior lecturer in American history at Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, before returning to the United States in 1972. He is the author of numerous books, including Albemarle: Jefferson's County, an area where a POW camp was located, which piqued his curiosity in the subject of Germans held in America during World War II. He died in 2017.
