Max Hastings

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1. Max Hastings

   Author of The Korean War, Going to the Wars, Editor: A Memoir

2. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, A History of Warfare, Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris

3. Antony Beevor

   Author of Stalingrad, The Fall of Berlin 1945, Crete: The Battle and the Resistance

4. Carlo D'Este

   Author of Decision in Normandy, Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily July-August 1943, Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome
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5. Martin Middlebrook

   Author of The First Day on the Somme 1 July 1916 (Penguin History), Cassell Military Classics: The Battle of Hamburg: The Firestorm Raid (Cassell Military Paperbacks), The Berlin Raids: R.A.F. Bomber Command Winter 1943/44

6. Rick Atkinson

   Author of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, The Day of Battle, Crusade; the Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War

7. Cornelius Ryan

   Author of The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin

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, No End Save Victory: Perspectives on World War II

9. Richard J. Evans

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

10. Len Deighton

    Author of Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain, Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II, Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk

11. Alistair Horne

    Author of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916, To Lose a Battle: France 1940

12. Robert K. Massie

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

13. David M. Glantz

    Author of When Titans clashed: how the Red Army stopped Hitler, The Battle of Kursk

14. Richard Holmes

    Author of Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket, Acts of War: Behavior of Men in Battle, Fatal Avenue: Traveller's History of the Battlefields of Northern France and Flanders, 1346-1945

15. Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Jerusalem: The Biography

16. Ian Kershaw

    Author of Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941, The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945

17. James D. Hornfischer

    Author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour, Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

18. Kenneth Macksey

    Author of Military Errors of World War Two, Invasion: The Alternate History of the German Invasion of England, July 1940, First clash: Combat close-up in World War Three

19. Gordon W. Prange

    Author of At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, Miracle at Midway

20. Alan Clark

    Author of Barbarossa, The Last Diaries, Diaries: Into Politics