Editorial Board

Brigadier Peter Young studied at Monmouth School and rrinity College, Oxford before becoming 2nd Lieut in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regt, British Army in 1939, During World War II he served throughout the Dunkirk tampaign and although wounded in 1940 BEF Dunkirk went on with Commando raids on Guernsey, the Lofoten Islands, Vatigso ;md Dieppe, the landings in Sicily and Italy, 1943, the battle ofl'ermoli, Normandy, the last Arakan campaign, commanding no. 3 Commando and the 1st Commando Brigttde. After the war he commanded the 9th Regt Arab Legion before becoming Head of the Military History Dei)artment at the RMA Sandhurst. He h;is written over thirty books on military subjects. He was also Editor in Chief of History of the First World War

And contributes regularly to the Army Historical Research Journal, Chamber’s Encyclopedia and other academic publications. He is also a founder member and Capitaine Generali of the Sealed Knot Society of Cavaliers and Roundhetids, a British Civil War re-enactment group.

Corelli Barnet was eclucated at Exeter College, Oxford. Between 1945 and 1948 he served in the British Army Intelligence Corps, then took a Masters degree, 1954. After many years as a very successful general and military historian and author Barnet was awarded the Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 1976. In 1977 he was made Keeper of the Archives and a Fellow at Churchill College, . where since 1980 he has been a teaching Fellow in Defense Studies. In 1982 he gave the Winston Churchill Memorial Lecture, Switzerland.

Among his many books receiving high acclaim, Corelli Barnet has written: The Desert Generals, The Battle of Aldmein, and Britain and Her Army - for which he won the Royal Society of Literature Award in 1971. Corelli Barnet worked as an author and historical consultant on an epic documentary series for BBC television entitled The Great War and two other notable series. The Lost Peace 1918 - 33 and The Commandos. He won the 1964 Screen Writers’ Guild Award for the best British television documentary script.

He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and an Elected Member of the Royal United Services Institute.

Dr. John Roberts is a well-known historian educated at Taunton and Keble College, Oxford, where in 1948 he received an M. A. In 1953 he got his D. Phil. and became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. In the same year he went to the United States as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow at Princeton and Yale. He later became a Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton (1960 - 61) and visiting professor at the University of South Carolina and Columbia. Merton College, Oxford, appointed him Fellow and tutor in Modern History, then Honorary Fellow in 1980. John Roberts has written and published several major historical works, including Europe 1880 - 1945 and Hutchinson’s History of the World. He also edited Purnell’s History of the Twentieth Century and the Larousse Encyclopedia of Modern History. Since 1967 he has been joint-editor of the English Historical Review, contributed to journals such as the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman and the

Spectator and given talks on the BBC. He is a member of the UK/US Education committee and the Royal Historical Society.

Chris Chant was born in Macclesfield, England and educated at The Kings School, Canterbury and Oriel College, Oxford where he obtained an M. A. in Literae humaniores. In his early career he worked as assistant editor on Purnell’s History of the First World War and the History of the Second World War. He was also an editor on the Encyclopedia of World War One. Since then he has dedicated most of his time to full-time writing, specializing in the history of military aviation. Included amongst the many titles he has written are Ground Attack, Great Battles of Airborne Forces, World War II Aircraft, How Weapons Work and recently Air Forces of the World, Naval Forces of the World. He is at present working on the third book of the trilogy published by Collins, England - Land Forces of the World, plus a Dictionary of World Aircraft.

Lieutenant-Colonel Eddy Bauer was born and spent most of his life in Switzerland, where he excelled both in an academic career - as Professor of History and then Rector of Neuchatel University - and as an officer in the Swiss Army. A major interest in modern warfare began from his first hand experience as a news correspondent in the Spanish Civil War. With this practical and academic training he was well qualified for his appointment as head of the Swiss Second Division’s Intelligence Service at the outbreak of World War Two, and it was from this neutral and privileged vantage point that he was able to write a detailed impartial account of the war, week by week, for a military diary of a Swiss newspaper. After the war he continued to use his great wealth of experience on the military, political and media aspects of war, regularly contributing to a variety of journals and writing numerous books, including a study of armoured warfare and a history of Secret Services, which was his final and uncompleted work. He died in 1972.

Brigadier-General James L. Collins Jnr., was

Commissioned into the United States Army as 2nd Lt. in 1939 after obtaining a B. Sc at the U. S. Military Academy, Vancouver where he received his M. A. before doing postgraduate studies at the Naval War College, the Armed Forces Staff College and the Army War College.

Brig. Gen. Collins is a former Chief of Military History, US Dept, of the Army and Commander of the Center for Military History, Washington. He has held a variety of other distinguished posts including Director of the Defense Language Institute and Director of the US Commission for Military. He is a professional author and editor on military subjects whose major published works include I'he Development and Training of the South Vietnamese 1950 - 72 and Allied Participation in Vietnam. He was Chief Editorial Adviser, War in Peace, 1984 a major partwork magazine in England, the Editor of Memoires of my service in the World War - George Marshall and contributes regularly to professional journals.