IMPERIAL HIGH COMMAND

Vitez Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over fifty years, using resources that span the globe. His latest book, "Imperial High Command - Volume II" is a follow-up to his 2020 book on the senior officers who served the British Empire during 1900-1945. Volume II of this work contains the biographies of 690 officers who reached the second-highest rank in the armed forces: full General (Army, Royal Marines), full Admiral (Royal Navy), or Air Chief Marshal (RAF). This count includes several foreign officers who held honorary rank in the British armed forces. The officers whose biographies appear in this book represent the creme de la creme of the military profession. Most of them saw action at some point in their careers, and several of them were wounded, but fate was to spare them so that they could rise to the very top of their profession within the British Empire, all members of the Imperial High Command.

Until recently, Kursietis served as the Chairman, President and CEO of the Latvian Welfare Association in the USA (Daugavas Vanagi ASV), as well as Vice-Chairman of the organization''s international board. He has been married to Rosemarie for thirty-seven years, and credits her for encouraging him to share the fruits of his many years of research with a wider audience of historians.