Hew Strachan, winner of the 2016 Pritzker Literature Award, is a professor of international relations at the University of St. Andrews and an emeritus fellow of All Souls College. He is the author or editor of many books, including The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War.
Simon Vance, a former BBC Radio presenter and newsreader, is a full-time actor who has appeared on both stage and television. He has recorded over eight hundred audiobooks and has earned five coveted Audie Awards, and he has won fifty-seven Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, which has named him a Golden Voice.