About the Author

AIDAN DODSON is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, where he has taught for two decades, and specialises in the wholly disparate subjects of naval history and archaeology, in particular that of ancient Egypt. The author of seventeen books and over four hundred articles and reviews, Dr Dodson also had a parallel career with the UK Ministry of Defence, including a period as project leader for the acquisition of the offshore patrol vessel HMS _Clyde_. His recent work, _The Kaiser's Battlefleet_ was published by Seaforth to great acclaim in 2015.