Robert G. Angevine is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History, Duke University, where he is completing a dissertation entitled "The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Business in the United States to 1861.'' He has also published "Gentlemen Do Read Each Other's Mail: American Intelligence in the Interwar Era,'' Intelligence and National Security (1992).
James S. Corum is professor of comparative military studies at the U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Airpower Studies, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Queen's University, Canada. Dr. Corum's publications include The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform (1992) and The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940 (1997).
Gerhard L. Weinberg is William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the origins and course of World War II, including The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany and A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II.
Mark A. Weitz is completing his dissertation "A Higher Calling: Desertion Among Georgia Troops During the Civil War'' at Arizona State University.
Xiaoming Zhang has a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and is currently assistant professor of history at Texas A&M International University. He has published numerous articles on modern Chinese diplomatic and military history, including a 1997 Moncado Prize essay on the Chinese perspective on the Vietnam War. He is working on a book titled Red Wings Over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea, 1950-1953.