Peter Calvocoressi - The Penguin History of the Second World War

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Peter Calvocoressi was born in 1912 and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a First in History. He was called to the Bar in 1935. During the Second World War he worked on Ultra Intelligence at Bletchley Park and later attended the Nuremberg trials. Since then he has mainly divided his time between publishing and international affairs. For eleven years he was a partner in Chatto & Windus and the Hogarth Press and later Chief Executive of Penguin Books. He has been Reader in International Affairs at Sussex University and has served on the Councils of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the International. Institute for Strategic Studies and Amnesty International, and on the UN Sub-Committee on Discrimination and Minorities. He has been chairman of the London Library and of the Africa Bureau and is now chairman of Open University Educational Enterprises Ltd.

Guy Wint was born in London in 1910 and educated at Dulwich College, Oriel College, Oxford, and Berlin University. In 1932 he went to China as secretarial assistant of the League of Nations Technical Mission. From China he went to India and spent some time there studying the working of the Indian Constitution. He spent most of the war years in government service in India, Singapore, America and China and in 1947 published The British in Asia. He then became a journalist and was for ten years a leader-writer for the Manchester Guardian. Guy Wint died in early 1969.

R. John Pritchard, born and raised in Southern California after the Second World War, graduated from the University of California at Riverside and obtained his MA and Ph.D. in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he studied diplomatic and military history, and specialized in the theory and practice of appeasement. Later, after founding two commercial enterprises, he took a law degree at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law in London. Between 1973 and 1987, he compiled and published an annotated, unabridged edition of the Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and a companion Index and Guide series. A new 124-volume edition, reformatted, updated and extended with additional materials, was launched in 1998 as The Tokyo Major War Crimes Trial: The Records of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East with an Authoritative Commentary and Comprehensive Guide. Interest in international humanitarian law and the misconduct of war led him to study thousands of other Cretan, German, Italian and Japanese war crimes trials. John Pritchard has written or contributed to scores of other published books, including Far Eastern Influences upon British Strategy towards the Great Powers , and has lectured on war studies, modern history and international law in British and American universities. In 1996 he became the founding director of the Robert M.W. Kempner Collegium, a trust established in upstate New York, devoted to expert conferences and the publication of hundreds of volumes on the history and jurisprudence of international criminal law, international human rights and related subjects.