David Horner is one of Australia’s leading historians and is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is considered Australia’s premier military historian with an international reputation for military history and strategic analysis. His expertise ranges across general Australian and world history.

David served for 25 years in the Australian Regular Army including active service in Vietnam, before becoming an academic, when as a Colonel in the Army Reserve, he was also Head of the Land Warfare Studies Centre.

He is the author or editor of 37 books and numerous other publications on military history, strategy and defence. David is the official historian of Australia’s peacekeeping operations. His history of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, The Spy Catchers, won the UK Intelligence Book of the Year prize and the Australian Prime Minister’s prize for history.

He is a Member of the Order of Australia for services to higher education and heritage as a researcher, author and academic, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He is passionate about sharing his insights and knowledge of the places visited on cruises.