Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University, North Carolina. He was born in the north of England in 1979, where he resided before moving to the United States in 1995. He received his doctorate from Duke University in 2006, and has published several articles in journals such as "The Historian," "Terrorism and Political Violence," and "Peace and Change," His first book, "The Irish Experience During the Second World War: An Oral History," was named a 2004 Book of the Year by the "Sunday Irish Independent,"