Charles Messenger has published over thirty books, including The Second World War in the West. He lives in London.
Richard Overy is Professor in History at the University of Exeter. Formerly Professor of Modern History at King's College, London, his books include William Morris, Viscount Nuffield The Air War, 1939-1945 Dictators, The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, The Nazi Economic Recovery, 1932-1938, Goering: The Iron Man All Our Working Lives (with Peter Pagnamenta), The Origins Of The Second World War, The Road To War (with Andrew Wheatcroft), War And Economy In The Third Reich, The Inter-War Crisis, 1919-1939, Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945, and The Battle: Summer 1
David Welch is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda and War at the University of Kent, UK. His books include Modern European History, 1871-2000 , Germany, Propaganda and Total War 1914-18 , Hitler: Profile of a Dictator , The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda and Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-45 . He is co-author of Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to Present and is the general editor of Routledge's Sources in History series.