ROBERT T. FOLEY spent from 2000 to 2005 as a lecturer and senior lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, King’s College, London, teaching at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. Since September 2005, he has been a lecturer in modern European history at the School of History, University of Liverpool. He is the author of German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004) and editor and translator of Alfred von Schlieffen’s Military Writings (London: Frank Cass, 2002).

HANNE HIEBER holds a diploma in education and is currently preparing her M.A. thesis on Elsbeth Schragmüller at the Department of History, Open University Hagen. She has published on the history of women in the city of Dortmund, including Drutmunde – Tremonia – Dortmund, Geschichten von Dortmunder Weibsbildern (Dortmund: Geschichtswerkstatt Dortmund, 1999).

MARKUS PÖHLMANN is a picture editor for the German history magazine Damals and teaches history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bern, Switzerland, where he worked as a research assistant from 1997 to 1999. He is the author of Kriegsgeschichte und Geschichtspolitik: Der Erste Weltkrieg. Die amtliche deutsche Militärgeschichtsschreibung 1914-1956 (Paderborn: Schoeningh, 2002) and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Kriegsherren (Munich: C. H. Beck).

JÜRGEN W. SCHMIDT served from 1976 to 1993 as an officer in the Nationale Volksarmee of the German Democratic Republic and later of the Bundeswehr. He holds a Ph.D. from the Open University Hagen. His dissertation was published under the title Gegen Frankreich und Russland: Der deutsche militärische Geheimdienst 1890-1914 (Ludwigsfelde: Ludwigsfelder Verlagshaus, 2005). Schmidt is specializing in German, Russian, and Eastern European history and teaches at the Fernstudien-Institut of the Humboldt-University Berlin.