Dominic Lieven is Professor Emeritus of International History at the London School of Economics, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated first in the class of 1973 in history from Cambridge University and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard in 1973/4. Subsequently, he has been inter alia a Humboldt Fellow in Germany, and a visiting professor at Tokyo University and Harvard. His recent book, Russia against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 won the Wolfson Prize and the Annual Prize of the Fondation Napoléon.