HRH The Duke of Kent: A Life of Service (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517220600)

Celia Lee is a military historian and biographer and is an honours graduate of the Open University, where she studied the 19th-century novel and social and military history. She is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for First World War. She published Jean, Lady Hamilton (1861- 1941) and is the main author of 'Winston & Jack: The Churchill Brothers' and 'The Churchills: A Family Portrait'. She has undertaken a study of work carried out by women in the Second World War and contributed a chapter on the work of HRH Princess Marina The Duchess of Kent as Commandant of the Women's Royal Naval Service, 'Women in War: From Home Front to Front Line'. Celia Lee is a member of the British Commission for Military History, the Gallipoli Association, the Western Front Association, the Douglas Haig Fellowship, the Biographers Club, the International Churchill Society and the Polish Hearth Club. John Lee is well-known in military history circles as a writer, lecturer and battlefield tour guide. He has an honours degree in Modern History from Birkbeck College, London, an MA in Social and Economic History from Birkbeck, and an MA in War Studies from King's College London. He is an Honorary Research Associate of the Centre for First Word War Studies at Birmingham University. He is a member of the British Commission for Military History, the Western Front Association, the Gallipoli Association, the Army Records Society, the Douglas Haig Fellowship, the Napoleonic History Society, the American Civil War Round Table (UK) and the International Churchill Society (UK). John Lee is the author of "A Soldier's Life: General Sir Ian Hamilton 1853- 1947" - described as 'model of military biography', 'The Warlords: Hindenburg and Ludendorff' and 'Gas Attacks: Ypres 1915'. He has contributed many chapters to collections of essays on the First World War.