Christopher Pugsley was a career army officer before becoming a full-time military historian. His books include On the Fringe of Hell: New Zealanders and Military Discipline (1991), Te Hokowhitu a Tu: the Maori Battalion in the First World War (1995) and Gallipoli: the New Zealand Story (1984, 1990, 1998). From 1996 to 1999 he was at the University of New England, Armidale.