Paul Jankowski is the Ray Ginger Professor of History at Brandeis University. He grew up in Geneva, New York, and Paris, and attended international schools before taking undergraduate and graduate degrees at Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of several books, including most recently Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War. He currently works on the disintegration of the world order in the era between the world wars, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.