Charles J. Esdaile has been a member of staff in the Department of History at the University of Liverpool since 1989. Awarded a personal chair in 2004, he is the author of numerous works on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the history of modern Spain, including The Spanish Civil War (2018), Wars of the French Revolution: 1792–1801 (2018), Napoleon, France and Waterloo: The Eagle Rejected (2016), Burgos: Occupation, Siege, Aftermath, 1808–1814 (2014), Women in the Peninsular War (2014), Napoleon's Wars: An International History (2007) and The Peninsular War: A New History (2002).