Temel Öztürk is Prof. Dr. in History Department at Karadeniz Technical University, in Trabzon, Turkey. He completed his doctoral studies at İstanbul University. He has published on war, socio-economic, and cultural studies in the Ottoman period. He is author of Savaş ve Trabzon (War and Trabzon) (Trabzon, 2011), and articles in a variety journals, including The Journal of Ottoman Studies, Journal of Social Sciences of the Turkish World (bilig), Accounting and Financial History Research Journal, and The Journal of Turkish Cultural Studies.
Matthews S. Seligmann is Professor of Naval History at Brunel University London. He is the author of Rivalry in Southern Africa, 1893-99 (1998); Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on Germany on the Eve of the First World War (2006); Naval Intelligence from Germany: The Reports of the British Naval Attachés in Berlin, 1906-1914 (2007); The Royal Navy and the German Threat, 1900-1914 (2012); and Military Intelligence from Germany 1906-1914 (2014); and the co-author of Germany from Reich to Republic, 1871-1918 (2000); Leadership in Conflict 1914-1918 (2000); Losing the Peace: Failed Settlements and the Road to War (2009); and The Naval Route to the Abyss: The Anglo-German Naval Race 1895-1914 (2015).
After a 30 year career in high tech, Dr William Stewart returned to university and received his PhD in 2012 from the University of Birmingham. Author of numerous articles and ‘The Embattled General: Sir Richard Turner and the First World War,’ his focus of research is on the tactical, operational, and administrative aspects of Canada’s participation in the First World War and their relationship to similar developments in the British, and Dominion forces.
Geogre hay is a Military Records Specialist in the Advice and Records Knowledge department at The National Archives of the United Kingdom. He gained his PhD in History from the University of Kent in 2012 and is currently working on a monograph concerning the Yeomanry Cavalry between 1815 and 1914.
Janice Matsumura is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. The focus of her past research has been on the Asia-Pacific War (1931–45), including the relationship between state propaganda and medical policies.
Michael S. Goodman is Professor of Intelligence and International Affairs, Department of War Studies, King’s College London, he is also Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School (NORDIS). His most recent publication is The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Volume I: From the Approach of the Second World War to the Suez Crisis (London, Routledge, 2014), which was selected as one of The Spectator’s Books of the Year for 2014.
