Zita Ballinger Fletcher MA is an award-winning author and military historian. She has written over 100 military history articles and more than 10 books, under the creative pen name Zita Steele, including the first published collection of Field Marshal Rommel’s photography in the Erwin Rommel: Photographer series, and Bernard Montgomery’s Art of War, which won a Silver Medal Award from the Military Writers Society of America. Zita is fluent in German and has done research at historic sites and battlefields across Europe and the USA. She served as the Editor of Military History Quarterly (MHQ) and Vietnam magazines and volunteers for the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum in Warwickshire. She holds an M.A. in Military History with Distinction from the University of Birmingham Centre for War Studies.