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Robert Lyman Author

Robert Lyman is the author of Campaign 165: Iraq 1941 (2006). He has also written Slim, Master of War (Constable, 2004), First Victory (Constable, 2006) and The Generals: From Defeat to Victory in Asia, 1941–45 (Constable, 2008), the latter of which deals in detail with the man responsible for the Japanese invasion of India in 1944, Mutaguchi Renya. Robert’s latest book, The Longest Siege, Tobruk. The Battle that Saved North Africa (Macmillan) was published simultaneously in Australia and the UK in May 2009. His The Battle for India: Imphal, Kohima and the Japanese Invasion, 1944 is being published by Pen and Sword in 2011 and Operation Suicide, The True Story of the Cockleshell Raid is being published by Quercus in 2012. His biopic on Field Marshal Bill Slim will be published as part of the Osprey Command series in 2011. Robert is also the Chairman of the Kohima Educational Trust (www.kohimaeducationaltrust). Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied Illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.