Robert Cowley

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1. Harry Turtledove

   Author of Worldwar: In the Balance, How Few Remain, The Great War: American Front

2. Robert Cowley

   Author of What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, What Ifs? of American History : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History Spring 1994

3. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, A History of Warfare, Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle

4. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Guns of August, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, The Zimmermann Telegram

5. Niall Ferguson

   Author of Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, The Pity of War, Virtual History

6. James M. McPherson

   Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War

7. Stephen W. Sears

   Author of Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville

8. Stephen E. Ambrose

   Author of Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

9. Will Durant

   Author of Our Oriental Heritage, The Age of Faith, The Age of Louis the XIV

10. Robert K. Massie

    Author of Peter the Great, Dreadnought

11. Christopher Hibbert

    Author of Tower of London, Versailles, Emperors of China (Treasures of the world)

12. Peter G. Tsouras

    Author of Rising Sun Victorious : The Alternate History of How the Japanese Won the Pacific War, Third Reich Victorious : The Alternate History of How the Germans Won the War

13. Lionel Casson

    Author of The pharaohs (Treasures of the world), The Greek conquerors (Treasures of the world), The barbarian kings (Treasures of the world)

14. S. M. Stirling

    Author of Conquistador, The Peshawar Lancers, The Sky People

15. Shelby Foote

    Author of The Civil War, a narrative : Red River to Appomattox, The Civil War, A Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian

16. John Birmingham

    Author of Weapons of Choice, Designated Targets, Final Impact

17. Frederic V. Grunfeld

    Author of The French kings (Treasures of the world), The kings of Spain (Treasures of the world), The princes of Germany

18. Daniel J. Boorstin

    Author of The Discoverers, The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

19. Steven E. Woodworth

    Author of Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861-1865, Chickamauga: A Battlefield Guide (This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil Wa)

20. Victor Davis Hanson

    Author of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power, An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism