Dr. Nigel Thomas is an accomplished linguist and military historian, formerly a Principal Lecturer at Northumbria University, now a freelance military author, translator, and military uniform consultant.

His interests are 20th century military and civil uniformed organizations, with a special interest in Germany, Central, and Eastern Europe. He was awarded a Ph.D. on the Eastern enlargement of NATO. He is based in the UK.

Ramiro Bujeiro has become a frequent and popular contributor to Osprey since illustrating Warrior 23- US Marine in Vietnam (1998).

He is an experienced commercial artist who lives and works in his native city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His professional background includes many commissions as a figure illustrator and strip cartoonist for clients all over Europe and the Americas, including many years' work for IPC Magazines in Great Britain. His main interests are the political and military history of Europe in the first half of the 20th century.