Vincent Clement is Senior Lecturer at the University of New Caledonia, Centre of New Studies on the Pacific. He is an expert in historical geography and environmental history. He has published extensively on forest, frontier and war in different historical periods, including De la marche-frontière aux pays-des-bois. Forêts, sociétés paysannes et territoires en Vieille Castille (XI-XXe s.) (Madrid, 2002, available on Google Books); ‘Forestry disputes in provincial France during the nineteenth century: the case of the Montagne de Lure’, Journal of Historical Geography (with L. Simon and P. Pech, 2007); ‘Spanish Wood Pasture: Origin and Durability of a Historical Wooded Landscape in the Mediterranean World’, Environment and History (2008).
Martin Samuels gained his PhD in Military Studies from the University of Manchester and is the author of Command or Control?: Command, Training and Tactics in the British and German Armies, 1888-1918 (Cass, 1995). His recent articles include ‘Friction, Chaos and Order(s): Clausewitz, Boyd and Command Approaches’, Journal of Military & Strategic Studies 15 (2014). Martin is a statutory Director in an English Local Authority.
David Morgan-Owen has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the National Museum of the Royal Navy and is now lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London. His publications include ‘“History is a Record of Exploded Ideas”: Sir John Fisher and Home Defence, 1904–1910’, International History Review (2014), ‘A Revolution in Naval Affairs? Technology, Strategy and British Naval Policy in the ‘Fisher Era’’, Journal of Strategic Studies (2015) and ‘Cooked up in the dinner hour? Sir Arthur Wilson’s War Plan Reconsidered’, English Historical Review (2015). He is currently preparing a forthcoming monograph, The Invasion Question: 1888–1918.
Richard Carrier is an Assistant Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada. He wrote ‘Blindness and Contingencies: Italian Failure in Ethiopia (1936-1940)’, in Richard G. Davis, eds, The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare 1775-2007, Washington, Center for Military History (U.S. Army), 2008. His upcoming works, ‘Analyzing Military Fiasco: The Italian Army in Greece and Albania, October 1940-April 1941’, in James G. Burgwyn and Nicola Labanca, eds, Italian Military Performance in the Second World War 1940-1943, will be published by Brécourt Academic in 2016 and ‘The Regio Esercito in Co-Belligerency, October 1943-April 1945’, in Emanuele Sica and Nicola Labanca, eds, Italy and the Second World War by Brill in 2017.
Michael Sturma is Professor of History at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. His most recent book is Fremantle’s Submarines: How Allied Submariners and Western Australians Helped to Win the War in the Pacific (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2015).
