ผู้เขียน: John Skinner

While a research fellow at Oxford University, the author contributed to two nonfiction books: World Armies edited by John Keegan, then a senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (ISBN 0-333-34079-5), and The Defense of Western Europe edited by Leo Gunn of Stanford University (ISBN 0-7099-1194-7). Between army retirement and working with the United Nations in Africa, the author’s coverage of organization and logistics in the West’s first International Military and Defense Encyclopedia (ISBN 0-02-881011-2) was published by Brassey’s (United States) Inc.