Professor Gary Sheffield is an English academic at the University of Birmingham and a military historian. He has published widely, especially on the First World War, and contributes to many newspapers, journals and magazines. He frequently broadcasts on television and radio. Among his recent publications is: "Dead cows and Tigers: some aspects of the experience of the British soldier in Normandy, 1944", In John Buckley, ed., The Normandy Campaign Sixty Years On (London: Routledge, 2006).