John Buckley - Operation Market Garden The Campaign for the Low Countries, Autumn 1944: Seventy Years On

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Text John Buckley, Peter Preston-Hough and contributors 2016
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Notes on Contributors

John Buckley is Professor of Military History in the Department of History, Politics and War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and specialises in the Second World War and the interwar era. He is the author of a number of books including Air Power in the Age of Total War (1999), British Armour in the Normandy Campaign 1944 (2004) and Montys Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe 1944-5 (2013).

Lt. Col. (Retired) Roger Cirillo is the Director of Operational Studies and Book Program Director, for the Association of the United States Armys Institute of Land Warfare. A veteran of twenty three years active service as a commissioned officer in the US Army, he served in armored cavalry assignments in the United States, Korea, and Germany. In addition to staff assignments both at NATO and as the Special Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief, US Army, Europe, he was a military historian, instructor, and combat operations analyst at both the Armys Command and General Staff College and the Center of Military History. He holds a PhD in Military History from Cranfield University, at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, England. He is currently writing a two volume study on the Allied High Command during the Liberation of Europe in 1944-1945.

Stephen C. Craig is a retired US Army Medical Officer. He taught Military Medicine and Medical History at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland from 2004-2015. His published a variety of technical and historical medical papers. His biography of US Army Surgeon General George M. Sternberg, In the Interest of Truth, was published in 2014 and Some System of the Nature Here Proposed: Joseph Lovells Remarks on the Sick Report, Northern Department, US Army, 1817 and the Rise of the Modern US Army Medical Department was released in 2015. Currently, Dr. Craig is pursuing a Ph.D. in Medical History at the University of Glasgow.

Jack Didden was born 1952, the Netherlands, has an MA in English Language and Literature and a PhD in military history. Jack Didden has published sixteen books so far, most of them in Dutch including the standard text about the fighting in the south of the Netherlands between 6 September and 9 November 1944, Brabant Bevrijd. The only three publications in the English language are Colin (1994), a booklet about the 51st Highland Divisions part in Operation Pheasant, Highlanders in the Low Countries, an article in the After the Battle magazine, issue 120, about the same subject and Autumn Gale(2013) a bulky book about Kampfgruppe Chill and the Allied autumn campaign between 6 September and 9 November 1944. He is currently preparing a book about Kampfgruppe Walther (11 September13 October 1944).

Matthew Douglass has a Master of Arts degree from the University of New Brunswick with the Milton F. Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society. He has participated on First and Second World War battlefield tours to Sicily, France, Belgium and Holland with the Gregg Centre as well as the Canadian Battlefields Foundation. He is currently expanding his MA Thesis into a manuscript concerning the New Brunswick Rangers during the Second World War with the New Brunswick Military Heritage Project Series.

Dr John Greenacre spent twenty four years in the British Army as a logistician, reconnaissance helicopter pilot and staff officer before retiring in 2011. He deployed on operations to Iraq and Kuwait, Bosnia and Northern Ireland and also worked in Germany, the Falkland Islands, Canada and Kenya.

In 2009 John graduated from the University of Leeds with a PhD in History with his thesis, The Capability Development of British Airborne Forces during the Second World War. His book on the same subject, Churchills Spearhead, was published in 2010 to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the formation of British Airborne Forces. He has also contributed to several edited publications on the subject of airborne forces during the Second World War. His latest book, Ever Glorious covering the exploits of the Crookenden brothers during the Second World War is due to be published in June 2016.

Russell Hart is a Professor of History and Director of the Diplomacy and Military Studies program at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the author of Clash of Arms: How the Allies Lost in Normandy (2001) and Guderian: Panzer Pioneer or Mythmaker? (2006) and co-author of The Second World War: A World in Flames (2004) as well as six additional co-authored works.

Stephen Hart MA FRHistS, is Senior Lecturer with Special Responsibilities in the Department of War Studies at The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Prior to Sandhurst, he lectured in the Department of War Studies, Kings College London, and in the International Studies Department at the University of Surrey. He has written a number of books and articles on the British and German Armies during the Second World War, including: Montgomery and Colossal Cracks: The 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe, 1944-45