Dr Philip 'Maty' Matyszak has a doctorate in ancient history from St John's College, Oxford University and has been studying, teaching and writing on the subject for the past twenty years. He specializes in ancient Rome, especially the Late Republic and Early Imperial periods, and his previous works include the best-selling Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day, Ancient Greece on Five Drachmae a Day and, for Pen & Sword, Mithridates the Great: Rome's Indomitable Enemy (2008) and Roman Conquests: Greece and Macedon (2009). He has personal military experience both as a conscript in Africa and with the territorial army in Britain, and he splits his time between writing in his home in Canada's Rocky Mountains and providing distant learning courses at Cambridge University. Lindsay Powell is a historian and writer who has a passion for the military history of the Roman Empire. A graduate of The University of Aston in Birmingham, he is a veteran of The Ermine Street Guard re-enactment society. He is news editor of Ancient Warfare magazine and has written for Military Heritage, Strategy and Tactics, MyHistoryDigest.com and regularly contributes to UNRV.com. Author of the acclaimed EAGER FOR GLORY and GERMANICUS, his latest book - MARCUS AGRIPPA - is about the life and swashbuckling exploits of Caesar Augustus' right-hand man. He is currently working on a new title detailing the commanders, campaigns and conflicts of the reign of Emperor Augustus. Visit him at http://www.lindsay-powell.com/