Volker Ullrich is a German historian, journalist, and author whose previous books include biographies of Napoleon and Hitler and a major study of Imperial Germany. From 1990 to 2009, Ullrich was the political books editor of Die Zeit.
Timothy Beech is a UK-based translator and linguist originally from Germany specialised in high-level historical and biographical literature.
Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck (1930-2019) was a prominent German lawyer, landowner, and businessman. As the great-grandson of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, he managed the family's historic Friedrichsruh estate.
