Alistair Horne

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1. Alistair Horne

   Author of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, Seven Ages of Paris, To Lose a Battle: France 1940

2. Harry Turtledove

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

3. 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, More What If?: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been?

4. John Keegan

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

5. 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

6. Lyn Macdonald

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

7. C. V. Wedgwood

   Author of The Thirty Years War, Coffin for King Charles: The Trial of Charles I, The King's Peace, 1637-1641

8. Bernard B. Fall

   Author of Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu, Street Without Joy

9. Niall Ferguson

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

10. Robert K. Massie

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

11. Martin Middlebrook

    Author of The First Day on the Somme 1 July 1916 (Penguin History), The Kaiser's Battle, Battleship: The Loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse

12. 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

13. Thomas Pakenham

    Author of The Scramble for Africa, The Boer War

14. Christopher Hibbert

    Author of Rome: The Biography of a City, Cavaliers and Roundheads: The English Civil War, 1642-1649, Benito Mussolini

15. Carlo D'Este

    Author of Decision in Normandy, Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life, Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily July-August 1943

16. Max Hastings

    Author of Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, The Korean War, Das Reich: The March of the 2nd Panzer Division Through France, 1944

17. Paul Fussell

    Author of The Great War and Modern Memory, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 (Modern Library Chronicles)

18. Simon Schama

    Author of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, The Embarrassment of Riches, The American Future: A History

19. Robert B. Asprey

    Author of The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma, The German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct World War I

20. Richard J. Evans

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