Jeremy Black is emeritus professor of history (University of Exeter) and prolific writer in the areas of eighteenth-century British, European and American political, diplomatic and military history. He is also a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (Philadelphia). His Weight of Words Series with St. Augustine's Press includes The Importance of Being Poirot (2021), Defoe's Britain (2024), and The Age of Nightmare (20240. His writing on war includes Infantry: A Global History (Pen and Sword, 2023), A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps (University of Chicago Press, 2020), A Short History of War (Yale University Press, 2021), and The Civil War (St. Augustine's Press, 2025).