Eduard Alofs was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1963. He graduated from the Technische Universiteit Delft as a building engineer in 1996.
David Stewart Bachrach is a professor of Medieval History at the University of New Hampshire. He is a specialist in the military and administrative history of the German kingdom from the tenth-thirteenth century and of the English kingdom during the thirteenth and early fourteenth century. His publications include Religion and the Conduct of War, c. 300–1215 (Woodbridge, 2003), Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany (Woodbridge, 2013), Warfare and Politics in Medieval Germany, c. 1000: On the Variety of Our Times by Alpert of Metz (Toronto, 2012), The Histories of a Medieval City, Worms, c. 1000–1300 (Aldershot, 2014), and Widukind of Corvey: Deeds of the Saxons (Washington, D.C., 2014).
Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, is a Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Military History at Flinders University. He is the author of British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878-1915: The Inconsequential Possession (Manchester University Press, 2009; paperback 2012); and co-editor of Reunifying Cyprus: The Annan Plan and Beyond (I. B. Tauris, 2009; paperback 2011); The Minorities of Cyprus: Development Patterns and the Identity of the Internal-Exclusion (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009); and The Archbishops of Cyprus in the Modern Age: The Changing Role of the Archbishop-Ethnarch, their Identities and Politics (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013). He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
Rachael Bell is a lecturer in social history at Massey University, New Zealand. Her research focuses on the transmission of historical knowledge through national histories and historical tradition. She has recently completed a PhD. entitled Memory, History, Nation, War: The Official Histories of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1939-45.
S. P. MacKenzie is Caroline McKissick Dial Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author a variety of books and articles dealing with aspects of warfare and society in the twentieth century, and is currently working on superstition and the sensory experience among Allied aircrews during World War II.
