Andrew Wiest is Professor of History, co-director of the Center for the Study of War and Society and Director of the Vietnam Studies Program at the University of Southern Mississippi. He was formerly Visiting Professor at Department of Warfighting Strategy at the United States Air Force Air War College and Visiting Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He has published numerous books, including Haig: The Evolution of a Commander, Potomac Press, 2005; Infantry Warfare: The Theory and Practice of Infantry Combat in the Twentieth Century, (MBI, November 2002). The Illustrated History of World War I, (Thunder Bay, October 2001), and Passchendaele and the Royal Navy, (Greenwood, March 1995).