VASILIS VOURKOUTIOTIS completed his PhD at McGill University, and taught History and International Relations in Russian universities for three years, before taking up his current appointment as Assistant Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of
Prisoners of War and German High Command: the British and American Experience (Palgrave, 2003), and has contributed to several books and published in academic journals in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Russia. He is also a Post Doctoral Scholar at the Université de Paris IV -Sorbonne, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.