Philip Longworth is the author of eight books including The Cossacks and The Making of Eastern Europe. He was educated by the army and at the University of Oxford and was Professor of History at McGill University for nearly twenty years.

His other books include:

Alexis: Tsar of All the Russias
The Rise and Fall of Venice
The Three Empresses
The Unending Vigil: A History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission 1919-1984
The Art of Victory