Dr Matthias Strohn was educated at the Universities of Münster (Germany) and Oxford. He has lectured at Oxford University and the Joint Services Command and Staff College at Shrivenham. Since 2006 he has been a lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and in 2011 he was also made a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham. He holds a commission in the German army and is currently a member of the military attaché reserve. He lives in Surrey, UK.Dr Strohn has published widely on 20th-century German and European military history and is an expert on the German army in World War I and the inter-war period. He has advised British and German government bodies on the World War I centenary commemorations.