Celebrated military historian and television presenter Richard Holmes is famous for his BBC series such as War Walks and Wellington. He is the author of the bestselling and widely acclaimed Redcoat and Tommy and more than a dozen other books, including The Western Front, Dusty Warriors and Sahib. He is general editor of the definitive Oxford Companion to Military History. He taught military history at Sandhurst for many years and is now a professor at Cranfield University and the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. He lives near Winchester in Hampshire.