George H. Cassar was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec and received his BA and MA from the University of New Brunswick and PhD from McGill University. He began teaching in 1966 and spent five decades at Eastern Michigan University where he was a professor of Military and European History. A leading authority on the First World War, his many books on the subject include Asquith as War Leader, Trial by Gas: The British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres and Kitchener and the Dardanelles Campaign: A Vindication. Now retired, he lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.