About the Author

Craig Stockings is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. He has published a history of the army cadet movement in Australia, The Torch and the Sword (2007), and a study of the First Libyan Campaign in North Africa 1940-41: Bardia: Myth, Reality and the Heirs of Anzac (2009). He has also edited the bestselling mythbusting books Zombie Myths of Australian Military History (2010) and Anzac's Dirty Dozen: 12 Myths of Australian Military History (2012).

John Connor is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Austalia. His books include The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838 (2002), which was shortlisted for the Royal United Services Institute's Westminster Medal for Military Literature, and Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of Australian Defence (2011).