Sönke Neitzel is Professor of Military History and Chair of War Studies at the University of
Potsdam. His latest book is Deutsche Krieger: Vom Kaiserreich zur Berliner Republik – eine Militärgeschichte.

Pierre Asselin is the Dwight E. Stanford Chair in the History of US Foreign Relations at San Diego State University. His latest book is Vietnam’s American War: a history.

Jenna Byers is a PhD student at King’s College, London, specialising in national identity construction in the army of the First Austrian Republic.

Kirill Nazarenko is Professor of History at Saint-Petersburg State University, specialising in the history of the Russian Navy. His latest monograph is Ledovoi Pokhod Baltiiskogo Flota: Korablekrushenie na more Revoliutsii.

Colin Brett Gilmour is Colin Gilmour recently defended his doctoral thesis at McGill University on the ideological utility of hero culture in Nazi Germany. He is currently undertaking further research into the political role of orders and decorations as vessels of “symbolic capital” in wartime society.

Alan Donohue earned his PhD in History from Trinity College and is currently an independent researcher. He is working on a monograph on the ‘forgotten year’ of the Eastern Front, 1943-1944.

Ákos Bartha is a researcher at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Jason Koutoufaris-Malandrinos is a lawyer based in Athens and a PhD candidate in Constitutional Law at the University of Thessaloniki.

Karianne Hansen is a first-year PhD student at the Stanley Burton Center for the study of the Holocaust and Genocide, University of Leicester. Her research interests centre around the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, with a particular focus on integrating prisoner perspectives and deconstructing ‘survival’.

Joshua Chakawa is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of History of Midlands State University. He has published extensively on the war of liberation in Zimbabwe and is currently working on a book project on Security Force Auxiliaries.

Tinashe Tony Chikafa is an MA candidate in Conflict, Security and Development at the University of Sussex.

Efrosyni Panayioutou is a PhD candidate at University College Dublin. Her research interests include the modern history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean region in the context of the development of political ideas and concepts, political violence, and decolonisation.

Stefan Kurz is a research assistant at the Military History Museum/Military History Institute in Vienna and a PhD candidate at the University of Vienna. His research interests include the military history of the Habsburg Monarchy, military diplomacy, and the history of the Armed Forces of the Austrian First Republic.

Iaroslav Golubinov is a senior researcher at the Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Jonathan Matthews is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research explores the way nationalist literature dealing with Irish Independence and the Easter uprising disseminated and later influenced anticolonialmovements within the British Empire.

Lior Tibet is a PhD candidate at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on Nazi cultural policy towards Ireland, 1933–1945.

Yiannis Kokosalakis is Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the UCD Centre for War Studies. He has recently completed a monograph on the rank-and-file of the Soviet communist party. His current research examines the function of political officers in the Red Army.