Michael G Bergen is a British-born Canadian author of historical fiction, memoirs and essays who lived and worked in eight cities in five countries on three continents and sailed the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and Baltic as a sailor with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Cold War. Bergen also experienced the Cold War border of the divided Germany, the Berlin Wall and the Soviet-backed Anti-apartheid Liberation Struggle in South Africa. He studied economics at Concordia University in Montreal and is reasonably fluent in three languages but has forgotten a fourth. Michael G worked in high-technology software development during his career and has had many interests and hobbies. His knowledge spans information technology, geography, geology, paleontology, paleoanthropology, western history and aspects of art, architecture, antiquity and twentieth-century conflicts.