John Man

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1. John Man

   Author of Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World, Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words, Genghis Khan

2. Nicholas A. Basbanes

   Author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World, Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book-Hunter in the 21st Century

3. A. J. Barker

   Author of PEARL HARBOR, Yom Kippur War (Campaign book : no. 29), Six day war (Ballantine's illustrated history of the violent century : Campaign book ; no. 27)

4. Peter Elstob

   Author of Battle of the Reichswald, Condor Legion (Ballantine's illustrated history of the violent century. Weapons book no. 35)

5. Simon Winchester

   Author of The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, The Meaning of Everything, A Crack in the Edge of the World

6. Arthur Swinson

   Author of Defeat in Malaya, The Fall of Singapore, Mountbatten

7. John Keegan

   Author of Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris, Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America, Atlas of the Second World War

8. Tom Holland

   Author of Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

9. Lawrence Goldstone

   Author of Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World, Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore, The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World

10. Henry Petroski

    Author of The Book on the Bookshelf

11. Lionel Casson

    Author of Libraries in the Ancient World, Ancient Egypt

12. William J. Koenig

    Author of Over the Hump: Airlift to China

13. David Crystal

    Author of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language

14. Barry Gregory

    Author of Argonne 1918 the AEF in France

15. Kenneth Macksey

    Author of Vimy Ridge 1914-18 Battle book #26

16. Andrew Robinson

    Author of Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts, The Story of Writing

17. John Pritchard

    Author of Reichstag Fire: Ashes of Democracy

18. Ian V. Hogg

    Author of Barrage : the guns in action

19. John Weeks

    Author of Infantry weapons (Ballantine's illustrated history of the violent century. Weapons book no. 25)

20. Stanley L. Falk

    Author of Liberation of the Philippines