Bates, Aaron: - Aaron Bates is a recent Master's graduate from the University of Calgary's Department of History. His research has been focused on the military history of the Second World War, particularly the operational and tactical performance of the German military and the relationship between theory and practice in combat doctrine. His undergraduate thesis 'The Last Bridge to Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe Air Transport Force and the Failure of the Stalingrad Airlift' received the Dr Stephen J. Randall Prize in History and was published in revised form in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies as 'For Want of the Means: A Logistical Appraisal of the Stalingrad Airlift'.