Dennis Showalter is professor emeritus of history at Colorado College. He is past president of the Society for Military History, founding joint editor of War in History.He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing in 2018. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Colonel (Ret.) Joseph P. Robinson was a Division G3 (operations and plans) in a combat zone, has written several thousand operational orders, and taught at the U.S. Army War College. He has  has authored several books about Imperial Germany. He lives in Pensacola, Florida.

Colonel (Ret.) Janet A. Robinson has authored several books about Imperial Germany and World War I.  She has an ABD, two  Masters degrees one of them in strategic studies. A Graduate of  United States War College, she lives in Pensacola, Florida.