David AlvarezDavid Alvarez is professor emeritus of politics at Saint Mary's College of California and a former scholar-in-residence at the National Security Agency. He has published many books, including three with Kansas: Secret Messages: Codebreaking and Amrican Diplomacy, 1930-1945; Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust; and The Pope's Soldiers: A Military History of the Modern Vatican.

At the time of his death in 2009 Eduard Mark was senior historian in the Office of Air Force History. He published a number of groundbreaking articles on Cold War history as well as two books, Aerial Interdiction: Air Power and the Land Battle in Three American Wars and Defending the West: The United States Air Force and European Security, 1946-1998. Read More Read Less