John Keegan

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1. John Keegan

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

2. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Guns of August, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, The Zimmermann Telegram

3. Max Hastings

   Author of Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, The Korean War, Victory in Europe: D-Day to V-E Day

4. Harry Turtledove

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

5. Robert Cowley

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

6. Rick Atkinson

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

7. Victor Davis Hanson

   Author of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think, An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism

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. 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

10. James M. McPherson

    Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War

11. Antony Beevor

    Author of Stalingrad, The Fall of Berlin 1945, D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

12. Niall Ferguson

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

13. Martin L. van Creveld

    Author of Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton, Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present, The Art of War (Smithsonian History of Warfare): War and Military Thought (Smithsonian History of Warfare)

14. Cornelius Ryan

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

15. Kenneth Macksey

    Author of Panzer Division Mailed Fist, First clash: Combat close-up in World War Three, Beda Fomm, The Classic Victory

16. Basil Henry Liddell Hart

    Author of Strategy: Second Revised Edition (Meridian), History of The Second World War, The German Generals Talk

17. David Mason

    Author of U-BOAT THE SECRET MENACE, Breakout: Drive to the Seine, Churchill

18. Paul Fussell

    Author of The Great War and Modern Memory, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

19. Donald Kagan

    Author of The Peloponnesian War, On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace

20. Geoffrey Jukes

    Author of Stalingrad, Kursk: the Clash of Armour, Carpathian disaster; death of an army