Dr. Jacob F. Field is a historian and writer who was a contributor to
1001 Historic Sites and
1001 Battles. He is the author of
One Bloody Thing After Another: The World's Gruesome History, and
We Shall Fight on the Beaches: The Speeches That Inspired History, both published by Michael O'Mara Books.
He studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, and then moved to Newcastle University for his PhD, where he completed a thesis on the Great Fire of London. He then worked as a research associate at the University of Cambridge.