Byron E. Farwell (1921–1999)

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1. Byron E. Farwell

   Author of Queen Victoria's Little Wars, Mr. Kipling's Army, Burton: a biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton

2. John Keegan

   Author of The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, A History of Warfare, Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris

3. Lyn Macdonald

   Author of 1915: The Death of Innocence, Somme, 1914

4. Alistair Horne

   Author of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71, To Lose a Battle: France 1940

5. Thomas Pakenham

   Author of The Scramble for Africa, The Boer War

6. Christopher Hibbert

   Author of The Great Mutiny, The Destruction of Lord Raglan: A Tragedy of the Crimean War 1854-55 (Wordsworth Military Library), The Dragon Wakes: China and the West, 1793-1911

7. John S. D. Eisenhower

   Author of So Far from God: The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848, Yanks : The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I, Intervention!: The United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917

8. Gary W. Gallagher

   Author of The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War), The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days (Military Campaigns of the Civil War), Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)

9. Alan Moorehead

   Author of The White Nile, The Blue Nile, Darwin and the Beagle

10. C. V. Wedgwood

    Author of The Thirty Years War, The King's War, 1641-1647

11. Lawrence James

    Author of The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India, The Savage Wars: British Campaigns in Africa, 1870-1920

12. Donald R. Morris

    Author of The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879

13. 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

14. Jay Luvaas

    Author of Guide to the Battle of Gettysburg (U.S. Army War College Guides to Civil War Battles), The U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battle of Antietam: The Maryland Campaign of 1862, The U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battles of Chancellorsville & Fredericksburg

15. Barbara W. Tuchman

    Author of The Zimmermann Telegram, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45, Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour

16. Charles Brown MacDonald

    Author of A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge, Company Commander

17. Donald F. Featherstone

    Author of Omdurman 1898: Kitchener's victory in the Sudan (Campaign), Victorian Colonial Warfare: India, from the Conquest of Sind to the Indian Mutiny, Victorian Colonial Warfare: Africa : From the Campaigns Against the Kaffirs to the South African War

18. Jan Morris

    Author of Pax Britannica: the Climax of an Empire, Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat

19. Martin Middlebrook

    Author of The Kaiser's Battle, Task Force: The Falklands War, 1982

20. Elizabeth Longford

    Author of Wellington: The Years of the Sword, Wellington: Pillar of State