Notes on Contributors
Ian Beckett is Professor of Modern History at the University of Luton. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he was formerly Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and has been Visiting Professor at the US Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. His study of the Great War in the Longman Modern Wars in Perspective series was published in 2000.
J.M. Bourne is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Britain and the Great War (London: Edward Arnold, 1989,1991) and a contributor to Facing Armageddon (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 1996), Passchendaele in Perspective (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 1997) and At the Eleventh Hour (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 1998). He is currently working on a multi-biography of British generals on the Western Front, which is due for publication in 2001.
Robert T. Foley is Lecturer in Defence Studies at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Watchfield. He has been editor of The War Studies Journal and is the author of a number of articles on German strategic thought. His book Schlieffens Military Writings is being published by Frank Cass in 2000.
James F. Gensch obtained his doctorate from Kings College London with a thesis entitled Italy, Geography and the First World War. He is currently working as a freelance military historian and is conducting research on the American Civil War with a particular emphasis on the battle of Shiloh.
Matthew Hughes is Lecturer in History at University College Northampton. He is author of Allenby and British Strategy in the Middle East, 19171919 (London: Frank Cass, 1999) and a contributor to Military Power: Land Warfare in Theory and Practice (London: Frank Cass, 1997). He has written articles on the Spanish Civil War for the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute and The International Journal of Iberian Studies and on the Second World War for the Imperial War Museum Review.
David Jordan was educated at the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham. He is Lecturer in Defence Studies at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Watchfield, where he is currently undertaking research into the British occupation of Indonesia, 194546. His book Tactical Airpower in the First World War is being published by Frank Cass in 2000.
Annika Mombauer, who studied at the Universities of Mnster and Sussex, is Lecturer in European History at the Open University in Milton Keynes. Her research interests include Wilhelmine Germany, the origins of the First World War, and postwar Germany. Her publications include Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War (CUP, 2001) and The Debate on the Origins of the First World War (Longman, 2000).
William Philpott is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at London Guildhall University. He is the author of a study of Allied strategic policy in the First World War, Anglo-French Relations and Strategy on the Western Front, 19141918 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996), and a number of journal articles and book chapters on aspects of alliance relations and military command in the First World War. He is currently editing the command diaries of Sir John French for publication by the Army Records Society, and co-editing a collection of essays on Anglo-French defence relations between the wars.
Denise Poynter is a part-time research student at the University of Luton. She is currently working on her PhD thesis, which is entitled Shell Shocked Women: A Study of the Incidence and Experience of War Neurosis and Other Psychological Disorders Occurring Amongst British Women who Served Alongside the British Expeditionary Forces during the First World War.
Matthew S. Seligmann is Senior Lecturer in History at University College Northampton. Recent publications include Rivalry in Southern Africa: The Transformation of German Colonial Policy (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998), Germany from Reich to Republic, 18711918: Politics, Hierarchy and Elites (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000) and articles in German History, Imperial War Museum Review and ImagoMundi. His current research is on external perceptions of German military intentions before the First World War.
Peter Simkins served for more than thirty-five years on the staff of the Imperial War Museum, where he was Senior Historian from 1976 until his retirement in 1999. He was Visiting Fellow at the Australian War Memorial in 1993 and the Douglas Haig Fellow in 1999. He is now Honorary Professor in Modern History at the University of Birmingham. His book Kitcheners Army (1998) was awarded the Templer Medal by the Society for Army Historical Research.
Matthew Stibbe was born in London in 1969 and educated at the Universities of Bristol and Sussex. He has previously taught at the University of Wales, Bangor, and is currently Lecturer in History at Liverpool Hope University College. He has recently completed a book on German Anglophobia during the First World War for Cambridge University Press and is now working on a new project on women in Nazi Germany.
Keith M. Wilson is Reader in International History at the University of Leeds. Among his publications are The Policy of the Entente: The Determinants of British Foreign Policy 19041914 (1985); The Rasp of War: The Letters of H.A. Gwynne to the Countess of Bathurst 19141918 (1988); Channel Tunnel Visions 18501945: Dreams and Nightmares (1994).
David R. Woodward is Professor of History at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. He has been a student of the First World War for over thirty years. His publications include Lloyd George and the Generals (Newark NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1983), Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 19171918 (Lexington, KT: University of Kentucky Press, 1993), The Military Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson: Chief Imperial General Staff, December 1915February 1918 (London: Army Records Society, 1989), and Field Marshal Sir William Robertson: Chief of the Imperial General Staff in the Great War (Westport CT: Praeger, 1998).
