About the Editors Spencer C. Tucker, PhD, has been senior fellow in military history at ABC-­ CLIO since 2003. He is the author or editor of 66 books and encyclopedias, many of which have won prestigious awards. Tucker’s last academic position before his retirement from teaching was the John Biggs Chair in Military History at the Virginia Military Institute. He has been a Fulbright scholar, a visiting research associate at the Smithsonian Institution, and, as a U.S. Army captain, an intelligence analyst in the Pentagon. His recently published works include World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection, Wars That Changed History: 50 of the World’s Greatest Conflicts, and Enduring Controversies in Military History: Critical Analyses and Context, all published by ABC-­CLIO. Priscilla Roberts, PhD, is an associate professor of business at the City University of Macau and codirector of the university’s Asia-­ Pacific Business Research Centre. With Spencer C. Tucker and others, she has coedited and contributed the documents volumes to 11 ABC-­ CLIO encyclopedias on the Korean War, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, the Arab-­ Israeli conflict, and Middle East wars. Roberts is the editor of Cuban Missile Crisis: The Essential Reference Guide, World War II: The Essential Reference Guide, Voices of World War II: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life, Arab-­ Israeli Conflict: The Essential Reference Guide, Arab-­ Israeli Conflict: A Documentary and Reference Guide, and The Cold War: Interpreting Conflict through Primary Documents. In addition, she is the author of numerous other books and articles in international history. Roberts spent 2003 at George Washington University as a Fulbright scholar and has received numerous other academic awards for research in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, and Macao. She earned her PhD at King’s College, Cambridge, England, and specializes in 20th-­ century diplomatic and international history.
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