Mary Kathryn BarbierMary Kathryn Barbier is Associate Professor of History at Mississippi State University, USA. She is the author of several books, including D-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion (2009) and Kursk 1943: The Greaest Tank Battle Ever Fought (2002). She is also the co-editor of America and the Vietnam War (2010; with Andrew Wiest and Glenn Robins), Culture, Power, and Security: New Directions in the History of National and International Security (2012; with Richard V. Damms) and the War in History journal. Read More Read Less