Robert B. Asprey (1923–2009)

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1. Robert B. Asprey

   Author of The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma, War In The Shadows - The Guerrilla In History Vol. II

2. Alistair Horne

   Author of The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71, To Lose a Battle: France 1940, La Belle France: A Short History

3. Robert K. Massie

   Author of Peter the Great, Dreadnought, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

4. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, The Second World War, The Mask of Command

5. Edward Crankshaw

   Author of Shadow of the Winter Palace, The Fall of the House of Habsburg, Bismarck

6. Martin L. van Creveld

   Author of Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton, Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present, Command in War

7. Hans Delbrück

   Author of Warfare in Antiquity: History of the Art of War, Volume I (Warfare in Antiquity), The Dawn of Modern Warfare: History of the Art of War, Volume IV (History of the Art of War, Vol 4), The Barbarian Invasions: History of the Art of War, Volume II

8. Basil Henry Liddell Hart

   Author of Strategy: Second Revised Edition (Meridian), History of The Second World War, The Sword and the pen : selections from world's greatest military writings

9. Daniel Curzon

   Author of The Revolt of the Perverts, Human Warmth and Other Stories, The Misadventures of Tim McPick

10. Holger H. Herwig

    Author of The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World, The First World War, Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918

11. Geoffrey Wawro

    Author of The Franco-Prussian War : The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871, The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866

12. Bernard B. Fall

    Author of Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu, Street Without Joy

13. Desmond Seward

    Author of The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453, Napoleon's Family

14. Henry Kamen

    Author of Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763, Philip of Spain

15. Christopher Hibbert

    Author of The Days of the French Revolution, George III: A Personal History, The Great Mutiny

16. Reed Browning

    Author of The War of the Austrian Succession

17. Ian Kershaw

    Author of Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris, Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis

18. Correlli Barnett

    Author of Hitler's Generals, The Swordbearers: Studies in Supreme Command in the First World War

19. Nils Ahnlund

    Author of Gustavus Adolphus the Great

20. Denis Winter

    Author of Death's Men: Soldiers of the Great War, Haig's Command: A Reassessment