Richard P. Tucker is Adjunct Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is co-editor of four multi-author books on the environmental history of the two World Wars. His previous publications include Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World (2000).

Nicholas B. Breyfogle is Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author/editor of seven volumes, including Water History: Readings and Sources (2020) and Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History (2018).

Peter Mansoor is the General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair of Military History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of three books and co-editor of three volumes, including the award-winning The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945 (1999).