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Anthony Tucker-Jones, a former intelligence officer, is an author and commentator who specialises in military history, with more than 50 books to his name. His work has also been published in an array of magazines and online. He regularly appears on television and radio programmes commenting on current and historical military matters. His books include Stalin's Revenge, Slaughter on the Eastern Front, Kursk 1943, The Eastern Front Air War, Armoured Warfare on the Eastern Front, D-Day 1944 and The Devil's Bridge. Developing a fascination with historical imagery from a young age, Dublin-born Ian Spring began collecting colour photo slides of the war from all over the world. Determined to preserve these historical moments for the future of mankind, he created the PIXPAST Archive to digitize and share this extraordinary collection. Thought to be the world's largest collection of World War II colour photography, the archive has supported historical research and contributed to more than 50 publications. A retired US Army colonel, David M. Glantz founded The Journal of Slavic Military Studies in 1988 and edited it for thirty years. He was the first US member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and was awarded the Society of Military History's prestigious Samuel Eliot Morrison Prize for his contributions to the study of military history and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library's 2020 Prize for Lifetime Achievements in Literature for Military History. He has written more than 60 books on the Soviet Army and the Soviet-German War, 1941-1945, including volumes on the Battles for Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Kursk.