Contributor Biographies

Stephen Badsey PhD MA (Cantab) is Professor of Conflict Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. An internationally recognised authority on military history and military-media issues, he has written or edited twenty-five books and more than sixty-five articles, his writings have been translated into five languages and he appears frequently on television and in other media.

Spencer Jones is Senior Lecturer in Armed Forces and War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. He currently serves as Regimental Historian for the Royal Regiment of Artillery. His previous publications include From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform of the British Army 1902–1914, Stemming the Tide: Officers and Leadership in the British Expeditionary Force 1914 and The Great Retreat of 1914: From Mons to the Marne.

Stuart Mitchell is currently working towards his PhD at the University of Birmingham, tackling the process of learning in the British Army during the First World War. He is also Secretary of the Centre for War Studies at the University of Birmingham and a member of the British Commission for military history as well as the Institute for Historical Research.

James Pugh holds a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Military and International History (Salford), an MA in International History (Wales), and a PhD in Modern History (Birmingham). He is currently a visiting lecturer with the University of Birmingham, specialising in air-power studies and the history of the First and Second World Wars. His thesis explored the conceptual origins of the control of the air in Britain between 1911 and 1918. He has also written on air-power leadership and doctrine.

Peter G. Tsouras is a retired army officer and a retired senior intelligence officer for the National Ground Intelligence Center and Defense Intelligence Agency. He has written extensively on the Second World War and is a leading author of military alternative history to include Disaster at D-Day, Gettysburg: An Alternate History, Stalingrad: An Alternate History, and the Britiannia’s Fist Trilogy, as well as six anthologies. He is the author and/ or editor of twenty-eight books and forty-five articles, and writes a regular column, ‘Forgotten History’, for Armchair General Magazine. His Scouting for Grant and Meade: The Memoir of Sergeant Knight, Chief of Scouts, Army of the Potomac will appear in 2014.