Dr. Andrew Crozier was educated at Queen Mary College, University of London; The School of Oriental and African Studies; and The London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1969 until 1989 he was Lecturer in Modern European History at Bangor University, North Wales. Thereafter he was Senior Lecturer and Jean Monnet Chair holder in the History of Contemporary Europe at Queen Mary, University of London, until his retirement in 2005. He has published the groundbreaking Appeasement and Germany's Last Bid for Colonies, which threw a completely new light on the premiership of Neville Chamberlain and The Causes of the Second World War which was the first book to cover the origins of the Second World War in both European and Pacific theatres in one volume. He is currently finishing a biography of Neville Chamberlain and a History of the European Union. Since 1994 he has been Visiting Professor at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, and has written extensively on the history of Britain's involvement in South East Asia and on the History of the Association of South East Asian Nations.