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Bill Nasson was born in Cape Town where he survived schooling and the trauma of adolescence before being educated in Britain at the universities of Hull, York and Cambridge. He has held visiting fellowships at Cambridge University, the Australian National University, the University of Illinois and the University of Kent in Canterbury. He lectured in economic history and history at the University of Cape Town for many years before moving to Stellenbosch University where he is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History. An award-winning author, his numerous book publications include the acclaimed The War for South Africa, Britannia's Empire, Springboks on the Somme, South Africa at War, 1939-1945 and WWI and the People of South Africa. Aside from being a general editor of 1914-1918 Online, the leading international encyclopaedia of the First World War, he is an ageing life member of the Peter Cook Appreciation Society.