Five Minutes Longer About the Author Siddhant Joshi is an intriguing amalgam of passionate history buff and fearless, gifted storyteller. He fell in love with war at the age of eight. When he should have been learning rudimentary math and science, he jumped down the rabbit hole of imagination and storytelling. And he has stayed there ever since. Year after year, while his friends played football and cricket, Siddhant studied history, war craft and the legendary characters of World War II. Five Minutes Longer is Siddhan't first book, though certainly not his last.