David Fromkin

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1. Harry Turtledove

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

2. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Guns of August, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

3. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, A History of Warfare

4. Robert Cowley

   Author of What If? 2 : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, What Ifs? of American History : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, More What If?: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been?

5. David Fromkin

   Author of A peace to end all peace, Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?

6. Niall Ferguson

   Author of The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, The Pity of War, Virtual History

7. 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

8. Robert K. Massie

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

9. Michael B. Oren

   Author of Six Days of War, Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present

10. Richard J. Evans

    Author of The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War

11. Bernard Lewis

    Author of What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, The Middle East

12. Alistair Horne

    Author of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916

13. Robert D. Kaplan

    Author of Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History, The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos

14. Paul M. Kennedy

    Author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

15. Daniel Yergin

    Author of The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

16. Peter Hopkirk

    Author of The great game : on secret service in high Asia, Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia

17. Albert Hourani

    Author of A History of the Arab Peoples

18. Karl E. Meyer

    Author of Tournament of Shadows, The Dust of Empire

19. David Halberstam

    Author of The Best and the Brightest, The Fifties, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

20. Shelby Foote

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