Richard Hough

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1. Samuel Eliot Morison

   Author of Admiral of the Ocean Sea : a life of Christopher Columbus, The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War, Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, 22 July 1942 - 1 May 1944

2. John Van der Kiste

   Author of Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister of Nicholas II, Kings of the Hellenes: The Greek Kings, 1863-1974, Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz: The Tragic Love Story of Queen Victoria's Eldest Daughter and the German Emperor

3. Richard Hough

   Author of The Fleet that had to Die, Death of the Battleship, Admirals in Collision

4. Martin Gilbert

   Author of In Search of Churchill: A Historian's Journey, Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939-1941 (Winston S. Churchill), Winston S. Churchill Volume IV 1917-1922 The Stricken World

5. Anne Edwards

   Author of Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, Royal Sisters: Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, The Grimaldis of Monaco

6. Dan Van der Vat

   Author of The Atlantic campaign: World War II's great struggle at sea, The Ship That Changed the World: The Escape of the Goeben to the Dardanelles in 1914, The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919

7. Winston S. Churchill

   Author of My Early Life: 1874-1904, Great Contemporaries, Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill

8. Theo Aronson

   Author of Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld, Royal Family: Years of Transition, The Royal Family at War

9. Dudley Pope

   Author of Life in Nelson's Navy, 73 North: The Battle of the Barents Sea, Great Gamble: Nelson at Copenhagen

10. John Keegan

    Author of The Second World War, The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare, Churchill's Generals

11. John Terraine

    Author of A Time for Courage: The Royal Air Force in the European War, 1939-1945, Business in Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars 1916-1945 (Wordsworth Military Library), The U-boat wars, 1916-1945

12. Robert K. Massie

    Author of Dreadnought, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea, The Last Courts of Europe: A Family Album of Royalty at Home and Abroad, 1860-1914

13. M. J. Whitley

    Author of Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia, Battleships of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia

14. Geoffrey Bennett

    Author of Naval Battles of the First World War (Classic Military History), Coronel and the Falklands, The Battle of Jutland (Wordsworth Military Library)

15. Alan Moorehead

    Author of Darwin and the Beagle, Gallipoli, The Fatal Impact

16. N. A. M. Rodger

    Author of The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815, The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649, The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy

17. H. T. Lenton

    Author of American Battleships, Carriers and Cruisers, German Surface Vessels 1 (Navies of the Second World War)

18. Martin Middlebrook

    Author of The First Day on the Somme 1 July 1916 (Penguin History), Battleship: The Loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, Cassell Military Classics: The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission: American Raids on 17 August 1943

19. Philip Ziegler

    Author of The Black Death, Mountbatten, King Edward VIII: A Biography

20. Correlli Barnett

    Author of The Swordbearers: Studies in Supreme Command in the First World War, The Desert Generals, Engage the Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War