PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Rana Mitter, OBE FBA, is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, and a fellow of St Cross College, at the University of Oxford. His books include China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: the struggle for survival, which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature, and China's Good War: how World War II is shaping a new nationalism. He won the Historical Association's Medlicott Medal for Service to History in 2020, and is a regular presenter for BBC Radio in the UK. Jessica Stern is a research professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University and a senior fellow at Harvard's School of Public Health. She is a 2016 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis. In 2009, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on trauma and terror. Her books include Denial: a memoir of terror and The Ultimate Terrorists. Sir Hew Strachan, FBA, FRSE, has been Wardlaw Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews since 2015. He is a life fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and an emeritus fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was Chichele Professor of the History of War from 2002 to 2015. His books include The First World War, the first volume of a trilogy; Clausewitz's On War: a biography and The Direction of War: contemporary strategy in historical perspective.
