Professor Gary Sheffield holds the Chair of War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton and he is a leading authority on the First World War. Previously he has held Chairs at the University of Birmingham and King's College London and was a lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is President of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides, and ... Read morea Vice-President of the Western Front Association. He has published widely, especially on the First World War, and contributes to many newspapers, journals and magazines, and frequently broadcasts on television and radio. Among his books are The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army, The War Studies Reader, Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918 (edited with John Bourne), The Somme, Forgotten Victory: The First World War - Myths and Realities and Command and Control on the Western Front: The British Army's Experience, 1914-19 (edited with Dan Todman). Show Less