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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. Richard Overy

   Author of Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945, The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality, The Road to War

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. Ian Kershaw

   Author of Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris, Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis, Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War

5. Antony Beevor

   Author of Stalingrad, The Fall of Berlin 1945, Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949: Revised Edition

6. Ronald H. Spector

   Author of Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan, At War at Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century

7. David M. Glantz

   Author of When Titans clashed: how the Red Army stopped Hitler, Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 (Modern War Studies), Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences 1942-1945

8. Russell Frank Weigley

   Author of The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy, Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany 1944-1945

9. Rick Atkinson

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

10. Williamson Murray

    Author of A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War, The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War, Strategy for the Defeat of the Luftwaffe 1933-1945

11. Richard J. Evans

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

12. Robert K. Massie

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

13. Michael Burleigh

    Author of The Third Reich: A New History, Earthly Powers, Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror

14. Orlando Figes

    Author of Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, A people's tragedy: the Russian Revolution 1891-1924, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

15. Niall Ferguson

    Author of Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, The Pity of War

16. Cornelius Ryan

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

17. Gerhard L. Weinberg

    Author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II

18. A. J. P. Taylor

    Author of The Origins of The Second World War, English History, 1914-1945, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918

19. John Erickson

    Author of The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin`s War with Germany, Volume One (Erickson, John, Stalin's War With Germany, V. 1.), The Road to Berlin: Stalin`s War with Germany, Volume Two (Erickson, John, Stalin's War With Germany, V. 2.)

20. Peter Paret

    Author of Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age