автор: Alisa Miller James E. Kitchen

James E. Kitchen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland, working on the «Limits of Demobilisation: Paramilitary Violence in Europe and the Wider World, 1917–1923» European Research Council project. Prior to this he was a Lecturer in Defence Studies at King»s College London. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained a DPhil in 2010 for his thesis entitled «Morale and the Role of Military Identity in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force: The Sinai and Palestine Campaigns, 1916–1918». He has published articles on the Indian Army in Palestine and crusading rhetoric amongst British imperial soldiers serving in the Middle East during the First World War, and is currently working on a monograph based on his thesis.Alisa Miller studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, and the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK before obtaining her DPhil from Christ Church, Oxford in 2008, for her thesis entitled «Poetry, politics and propaganda: Rupert Brooke and the role of «patriotic poetry» in Great Britain, 1914–1918″. She has published articles on poetry and war culture in the United States and Great Britain, and is currently working on a monograph based on her thesis, as well as a book on how the First World War was taught in Europe and the United States over the course of the twentieth century. She also works for the higher education representative body, GuildHE, in London, heading up the CREST (Consortium for Research Excellence, Support and Training).Laura Rowe completed her BA in Modern History and MSt in Historical Studies at Worcester College, Oxford in the UK. After taking a year away from academia to learn German she moved to the Department of War Studies at King»s College, London. There she undertook a PhD thesis entitled «Morale and Discipline in the Royal Navy during the First World War». Following completion of her PhD she was award the Alan Pearsall Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research in London. She was appointed as a Lecturer in Naval History at the University of Exeter in September 2009. She has published chapters on the Admiralty»s perspective on lower-deck unrest, and on the naval courts-martial from the First World War. She is currently working on a monograph based on her doctoral and post-doctoral research.