Consultant Editor CHARLES STEPHENSON is a historian and writer, whose recent military titles include: "Servant to the King for His Fortifications: Paul Ive and the Practise of Fortification";"The Admiral's Secret Weapon"; "Fortifications of the Channel Islands, 1941-45: Hitler's Impregnable Fortress"; and "The Fortifications of Malta, 1530-1945." He is currently working on a history of the Italo- Ottoman War of 1911-12.