Charles J. Esdaile is Professor of History at the University of Liverpool, UK. Educated at the University of Lancaster, he has been a member of staff at the University of Liverpool since 1989, and is the author of numerous works on the Napoleonic period in general and the Peninsular War in particular. Prior to 1989 he was for four years Wellington Papers Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK.

Phil Freeman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, UK. A graduate of the University of Sheffield, he initially specialized in the Roman Britain, but has since become heavily involved in conflict archaeology in which connection he has been involved in excavations in Jordan, Turkey and the Crimea.