Norman Stone is currently Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara, TUrkey, where he is Director of the Turkish-Russian Institute. He was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His first book, The Eastern Front, 1914-1017 (1975) won the Wolfson Prize for History in 1976. His other works include Hitler (1980); Czechoslovakia: Crossroads and Crises, edited with Edward Stroughal (1989); and The Other Russian: the Expereience of Exile edited with Michael Glenny (1990).