7 U S A ( To l l - f r e e ) 1-877-381-2914 E m a i l info@theculturalexperience.com Dr Andy Fear was born in Morecambe and educated at Lancaster RGS and New College Oxford where he obtained his BA and D Phil (on Roman Spain). After a brief spell at Jesus, Oxford he went on to teach Classics at the Universities of Keele and Manchester. An ardent Hispanophile, his academic interests and publications cover the provinces of the Western Roman Empire (especially Britain and Spain), ancient and medieval Warfare, and the Iberian peninsula. Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His first book, PeasantRussia-CivilWar,wasdescribedas‘one of the most important books ever published on the Russian Revolution’. His latest book is Revolutionary Russia 1891 - 1991. It argues that - although it changed in form and character - the Russian Revolution should be understood as a single cycle of 100 years, from the famine crisis of 1891 until the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991. Eamonn Gearon is an historian and analyst who has lived and worked across the Middle East for twenty years. Like T. E. Lawrence, he is a noted desert explorer, whose camel-powered Saharan explorations grew out of time spent with the Bedu in the Libyan Desert. Eamonn works as a Special Adviser to government and military and is an analyst of Islamist terrorist groups. Author of The Sahara: A Cultural History which the BBC described as “vital background reading for anyone who wants to understand the deep roots of the Arab Spring campaigns.” Dr Simone Gigiliotti is a Senior Lecturer/ ReaderinHolocaustStudiesatRoyalHolloway, University of London. She has published numerous studies on Jewish victims and survivors’ experiences during and after the Holocaust, and particularly so as they relate to deportation, evacuation and death marches. Her publications include: The Holocaust: a Reader; The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity and Witnessing in the Holocaust; and The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime: Migration, the Holocaust, and Post-war Displacement. Major General John Drewienkiewicz CB CMG or ‘DZ’, is a former Engineer-in-Chief of the British Army who spent years in Bosnia and Kosovo in the late 1990s. After 20 years of walking European and American battlefields, the Balkans sparked his interest in the wars of the mid-19th century, from the 1859 Italian War, through the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 to the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. He has written five books which examine campaigns through the lens of wargaming, his latest on Königgrätz was published earlier this year. Fred Hawthorne BA served with the United States Air Force during the latter stages of the Vietnam War. In the 30 years since, Fred has earned a series of university degrees in American History, US Colonial History and Historical Archaeology – and he has conducted more than 5,000 tours on these themes. He now lives practically on the battlefield at Gettysburg and is one of the most experienced experts on Civil War battlefields. Colonel Robert Kershaw BA served in the armyasaParatrooper.Heisnowanestablished military historian, author and commentator. An internationally acknowledged expert on the Eastern Front, he has also published books on a wide range of battles and campaigns, including Red Sabbath - The Battle of The Little Bighorn, and BattlesthatChangedtheWorld, in which he takes a unique view of the battles of Stalingrad, Hastings and Waterloo and AStreet in Arnhem. Ian Knight is a writer and historian who is internationally regarded as a leading authority on the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. He has published over forty books and monographs, the majority of them on Zulu history and the rest on other nineteenth- century British colonial campaigns. He has appeared on-screen in a number of television documentaries. Simon JonesMA,formerlycuratorattheRoyal Engineers and King’s Liverpool Regiment Museums, has guided at battlefields around the world since 1997. The author of books on tunnelling and gas warfare during the First World War, he has taught the First World War at Liverpool and Lancaster Universities and has Masters Degrees from Liverpool and Leicester Universities. Colonel Nick Lipscombe MSc FRHistS served for 34 years in the British Army; seeing operationaldutywiththeBritishandAmerican armies. He is an accomplished Napoleonic historian with an extensive knowledge of the Peninsular War. His works include the award winning Peninsular War Atlas and Concise History, Wellington’s Guns, Wellington Invades France, the official Waterloo 200 Bicentenary book Waterloo, A Decisive Victory and most recently Wellington’s Eastern Front.