Walter J. Dunn, Jr. was director of five museums from 1956 to 1989, including six years at the museum of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and sixteen years at the Buffalo and Erie Country Historical Society. He taught part time at the State University College of Buffalo. His book Second Front Now 1943 (1981) examined the possibility of launching the second front earlier and concluded that the decision in 1944 reflected political rather than logistical concerns. A work on the mobilization of the Red Army, Hitler's Nemesis, The Red Army 1930-45 appeared late in 1994.
Colonel David M. Glantz was founder and Director of the Foreign Military Studies Office, Combined Arms Command, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. A Graduate of the Defense Language Institute, the U.S. Army Institute for Advanced Russian and Eastern European Studies, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC), and the U.S. Army War College (AWC), he has served on the faculty of the United States Military Academy, the Combat Studies Institute (CGSC), Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas; and the U.S. Army War College. Among the articles and books he has authored on Soviet and Russian military affairs are August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 2 Vols.; A History of Soviet Airborne Forces; Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War; Soviet Military Intelligence in War; The Role of Intelligence in Soviet Military Strategy in the Second World War; Soviet Military Operational Art: In Pursuit of Deep Battle; From the Don to the Dnepr: A Study of Soviet Offensive Operations December 1942-August 1943; The Soviet Conduct of Tactical Maneuver; and Soviet Military Strategy. He is editor of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies; he has just completed a single volume history of the German-Soviet War (1941-45), and is working on a study of the failed Soviet offensive at Khar'kow in May 1942.
Peter Hoffmann is Professor of History at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His reputation as the principal authority on the German opposition to Hitler has been long estab lished. Among his major works are The History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945, Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg und seine Brueder, and Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat.
D. Clayton James is the John Biggs Professor of Military History at Virginia Military Institute. He has also held distinguished professorships at the Marine Corps University and Mississippi State University. He has occupied chairs at the Military History Institute of the Army War College and the Army and General Staff College. His three-volume Years of MacArthur, is the acknowledged leader in the field of biography of our World War II Pacific area leader. Among his other seven books are Antebellum Natchez and South of Bataan, North of Mukden.
Robert W. Love, Jr. has taught American naval history and recent military history at the U.S. Naval Academy since 1975. He is the author of a two-volume History of the U.S. Navy, author and co-editor of The Chiefs of Naval Operations, and editor of Changing Interpretations and New Sources in Naval History. His forthcoming books include Passage to Pearl Harbor: The U.S. Navy, 1939-1941 and The Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Army.
John Kim Munholland is professor of history and director of the Western European Area Studies Center of the University of Minnesota. His special interests are in modern French history with particular reference to French imperial expansion, military history, and diplomacy of the 1930s and World War II. Among his publications are Origins of Contemporary Europe, 1890-1914, and articles on trials of the Free French in New Caledonia, The French Army and Intervention in Southern Russia. 1918-1920, and The French Response to the Vietnamese National Movement. During the past academic year he has been working in France on De Gaulle and the Free French Movement during the Second World War.
Bernard C. Nalty retired in January 1994 after almost 40 years as a historian in the federal government. He worked for the historical programs of the United States Marine Corps and the Joint Chiefs of Staff before transferring in 1964 to the United States Air Force Historical Liaison Office, which evolved into the Office of Air Force History and today's Center for Air Force History. His government publications include Air Power and the Fight for Khe Sanh, a monograph in a series of studies dealing with the history of the Air Force in the Vietnam War. He collaborated with Henry I. Shaw, Jr., and Edwin T. Turnbladh on Central Pacific Drive, a volume in the history of Marine Corps operations in World War II. The Marine Corps has circulated a number of his studies. He has written, collaborated on, or contributed to 1001 Questions Answered about Aviation History, Tigers over Asia about the Flying Tigers of World War II, and The United States Military under the Constitution of the United States, 1789-1989, to illustrated volumes on the Vietnam War and World War II in the Pacific and in Europe. He is co-editor of two collections of documents dealing with African Americans in the military – the thirteen-volume, Blacks in the United States Armed Forces: Basic Documents and its one-volume abridgement, Blacks in the Military: Essential Documents. He also has written Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military.
Colonel Samuel J. Newland served in the Kansas and (since 1989) in the Pennsylvania National Guard. He is currently Professor in the Department of Advanced Studies of the U.S. Army War College. Among his scholarly publications are books on Inside Hitler's Germany (co-author), Cossacks in the German Army, 1941-1945, and The Inevitable Partnership: The Franco-German Security Relationship (co-author).
Richard J. Overy is Lecturer in History at King's College, University of London. He is widely recognized for his mastery of the history of the European air war of World War
II. Among his books are The Air War, 1939-1945, The Road to War, and The Iron Man. He is currently working on books dealing with the history of the Nazi economy and a general study of World War II.
Frederick D. Parker retired from the National Security Agency in 1984. He has worked in the Center for Cryptologic History at NSA since that time and is the author of two official histories on the role of the U.S. Navy communications intelligence in the Pacific War, particularly how it influenced navy decision-makers. The first book, Pearl Harbor Revisited: United States Navy Communications Intelligence, 1924-1941 contains the source material on which these books are based. His second book, A Priceless Advantage: U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence and the Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and the Aleutians, is also available from the Center. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1943-45 and from 1950-52.
Captain (ret.) Paul R. Schratz began his World War II career against German submarines in the North Sea. When the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbor, he entered the submarine service in which he continued to be active throughout the Korean War, where he commanded a submarine of the highly advanced Pickerel class. He has written extensively on both national and international affairs and published a true classic on World War II submarine warfare, Submarine Commander. To the great distress of his collaborators in the current project, Captain Schratz died as the result of an operation for cancer in the very week he completed his assignment.
Dennis E. Showalter is Professor of History at the Colorado College, Colorado Springs. His principal publications include Tannenberg: Clash of Empires; Railroads and Rifles: Soldiers, Technology and the Unification of Germany; and Voices from the Third Reich: An Oral History, edited with Johannes Steinhoff and Peter Pechel.
Anne Sharp Wells is a member of the administrative faculty of the Virginia Military Institute. Besides co-authoring four books on military history with D. Clayton James, she was newsletter editor of the World War Two Studies Association.
Gerhard L. Weinberg is Professor of History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has also taught at the Universities of Chicago, Kentucky, and Michigan. He gained particular distinction for his activities to promote access to and publication of World War II official documentation. Among his major publications are Hitler's zweites Buch, The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany: Diplomatic Revolution in Europe, 1933-1936, and A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. He holds the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Albany and is Vice President for Research of the American Historical Association.
Herman S. Wolk is deputy chief for publications, Office for Air Force History. He is the author of Planning and Organizing the Post War Air Force, 1943-1947 and Strategic Bombing: The American Experience. He has contributed to a number of other major studies in Air Force history.