Jean Guilaine

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1. Stephen Turnbull

   Author of Warriors of Medieval Japan (General Military), Japanese Castles 1540-1640 (Fortress), Ninja AD 1460-1650 (Warrior)

2. Ian Peirce

   Author of Swords of the Viking Age

3. Lawrence H. Keeley

   Author of War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

4. John Carman

   Author of Ancient Warfare

5. Fernand Braudel

   Author of The Identity of France

6. Julius Caesar

   Author of Commentaries on the Gallic War, The Civil War

7. Alan Sokal

   Author of Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

8. Nicola Di Cosmo

   Author of Ancient China and its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History

9. John Keegan

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

10. Georges Duby

    Author of Le Dimanche de Bouvines, 27 juillet 1214

11. Ewart Oakeshott

    Author of The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry

12. René Grousset

    Author of The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia

13. Sir Frank Stenton

    Author of Anglo-Saxon England

14. Anonymous

    Author of The Tain, Popol Vuh

15. W. B. Yeats

    Author of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

16. Livius

    Author of History of Rome, books 31-45

17. Victor Davis Hanson

    Author of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

18. Sin-liqe-unninni

    Author of The Epic of Gilgamesh

19. William H. McNeill

    Author of Plagues and Peoples

20. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

    Author of Montaillou : Cathars and Catholics in a French village, 1294-1324