Simon Dunstan is a military history author, film maker and photographer. He specialises in the subject of armoured warfare, a field on which he has been writing for over two decades. His books have covered topics such as helicopter and armoured warfare in Vietnam, the Challenger main battle tank, The British Guards and armoured warfare in Korea. Simon lives and works in London.Ronald Volstad was born in 1949 in Alberta, Canada, where he still lives and works. He worked in a TV company's art department before spending 15 years operating heavy machinery in the oil industry. His first illustrations were published in 1970; since then he has become widely known for his work in Osprey publications and for Dragon Models, and has also worked as a courtroom artist for TV news.

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