SAMUEL R. WILLIAMSON, JR. is Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor and President Emeritus of the University of the South. His most recent books include Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War (1991) and with Steven L. Rearden, The Origins of U.S. Nuclear Policy, 1945-1953 (1993). He writes frequently about the causes of the First World War, while offering courses on intelligence and foreign policy in the 20th century. He is currently working on a two-volume study of Austria-Hungary before the Great War. Williamson has held administrative and teaching positions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as the University of the South.

RUSSEL VAN WYK teaches at Cary Academy, a college preparatory school, and is an adjunct faculty member in the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as the U.S. editor for the War and Society Newsletter published by the Military History Research Office in Germany and has written on German-American relations during and after World War I as well as intelligence operations during the Great War. He is currently editing Russian and German documents related to Kurt Jahnke, a German intelligence agent active in the United States and Western Europe.