ZITA BALLINGER FLETCHER is an award-winning author and military historian. She has written over 100 military history articles and more than 10 books, under the creative pen name Zita Steele, including the first published collection of Field Marshal Rommel's photography in the Erwin Rommel: Photographer series, and Bernard Montgomery's Art of War, which won a Silver Medal Award from the Military Writers Society of America. Zita is fluent in German and has done research at historic sites and battlefields across Europe and the USA. She served as the Editor of Military History Quarterly (MHQ) and Vietnam magazines and was the Chair of the Friends of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum in Warwickshire.
As a defense reporter, she has provided news coverage of the Pentagon, U.S. Congress, the global defense industry, and all branches of the U.S. military for Defense News and Military Times.
She served proudly as the official historian of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and has written in German as a guest historian for the German War Graves Commission, which she supports. She holds an M.A. in Military History with Distinction from the University of Birmingham Centre for War Studies.
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