About the Author

Michael Hesselholt Clemmesen (born 1944 in Copenhagen) is a Danish historian and pensioned brigadier general. Since 2005, he has worked as a military and strategy historian. He has been employed as senior research fellow at the Institute for Military History and War Studies at the Royal Danish Defence College, with a main research and publication focus on the political-military history of the Scandinavian and Baltic Regions from 1890 to 1940.