Peter Eis­ner is a vet­er­an for­eign cor­re­spon­dent, edi­tor and reporter at The Wash­ing­ton Post, News­day, and the Asso­ci­at­ed Press. His 2004 book, The Free­dom Line, which won the Christo­pher Award, is the sto­ry of young resis­tance work­ers who res­cued Allied fight­er pilots dur­ing World War II. Eis­ner was nom­i­nat­ed for an Emmy in 2010 as a pro­duc­er at PBS World Focus.