José E. Alvarez holds a Ph.D. in history from Florida State University and teaches at the University of Houston-Downtown. His dissertation, ``The Betrothed of Death: The Spanish Foreign Legion during the Rif Rebellion, 1920-1927,'' will soon be published by Greenwood/Praeger.
Joseph G. Dawson, III, is associate professor of history and Director of the Military Studies Institute at Texas A&M University. He holds a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Among his publications are Army Generals and Reconstruction: Louisiana, 1862-1877 (1982), and Commanders in Chief: Presidential Leadership in Modern Wars (ed., 1993).
Nikolas Gardner is a doctoral candidate at the University of Calgary. His dissertation examines command in the British Expeditionary Force in 1914.
Jay Howard Geller is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Yale University. He specializes in twentieth-century Germany and eastern Europe.
Albert P. Palazzo received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1996. He is currently a Research Associate at the Australian Defence Force Academy where he is writing a history of the Third Australian Division from 1916 to 1991.
Frederick C. Schneid is an Assistant Professor of History at High Point University. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1993, under the direction of Professor Gunther E. Rothenberg. He has written Soldiers of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy: Army, State and Society (1800-1814) (Westview, 1995), and is currently working on another book for Westview concerning Napoleon and grand strategy.
David Syrett is a professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. from the University of London and is the author of a number of books on naval history, including Shipping and the American War, 1775-83, The Royal Navy in American Waters, 1775-1783, and The Royal Navy in European Waters during the American Revolutionary War.
Paul Wanke earned an M.A. from the University of Idaho in 1992. He is currently Lead Teacher at Secret Harbor School, Anacortes, Washington, and a graduate student at the University of Kansas.