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Gabriele Esposito is an Italian freelance author on military history, specializing in uniformology, who has written a number of titles for Osprey Publishing, Pen & Sword, Winged Hussar Publishing, and Partizan Press, and is a regular contributor to many magazines such as Ancient Warfare, Medieval Warfare, Classic Arms & Militaria, Guerres et Histoire, History of War, and Focus Storia Wars. He is Professor of Modern History at the Second University, Naples. Giuseppe Rava was born in Faenza in 1963, and took an interest in all things military from an early age. Entirely self-taught, Giuseppe has established himself as a leading military history artist, and is inspired by the works of the great military artists, such as Detaille, Meissonier, Röchling, Lady Butler, Ottenfeld and Angus McBride. He lives and works in Italy.