Mr. Dando-Collins is an Australian-born historian and novelist who writes about American, Roman, British, Australian and French history. He is the author of 21 books, the latest being Tycoon’s War.

Mr. Satloff is executive director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands. At every ...

Gerhard L. Weinberg is emeritus professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge University ...

Jim Cullen is a book review editor at HNN. He is also the author of the Kindle Single President Hanks. This essay is adapted from the newly published “Twilights Gleaming: The American Dream and ...

Mr. Boot is the author of The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. On Feb. 19, 1945, 30,000 Marines splashed ashore on a small volcanic island in the central Pacific.