Dr Michael LoCicero is an independent scholar and Helion & Company commissioning editor. Having earned a PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2011, he was previously employed as a contracted researcher at the National Archives, Kew and the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust. His publications include a contributory chapter on Brigadier-General Edward Bulfin in the highly regarded Spencer Jones (ed.) Stemming the Tide: Officers and Leadership of the British Expeditionary Force 1914 (2013), A Moonlight Massacre: The Night Operation on the Passchendaele Ridge, 2 December 1917 (2014), a contributory chapter chronicling the forgotten battle of International Trench in Spencer Jones (ed.), Courage Without Glory: The British Army on the Western Front 1915 (2015) and a contributory chapter analysis of a large-scale German trench raid at La Boisselle in Spencer Jones (ed.), At All Costs: The British Army on the Western Front 1916 (2018). Ross Mahoney is a PhD candidate at the Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham where he is researching leadership development in the inter-war Royal Air Force. His research interests include air power studies, leadership and military culture. He is the convenor of The Second World War Military Operations Research Group and is West Point Fellow in Military History. / Stuart Mitchell is a Visiting Lecturer and Secretary of the Centre for War Studies at the University of Birmingham where he is a PhD candidate specialising in learning and transformation in the British Army during the First World War. He is also a member of the British Commission for Military History, Western Front Association and the Institute for Historical Research. Stuart Mitchell is Senior Lecturer at the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has taught counterinsurgency to the British Army for several years as well as to overseas personnel on diplomatic visits.