Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses is a Professor of History at Maynooth University, Ireland. He is the author of numerous works on Portuguese history, including Portugal 1914-1926: From the First World War to Military Dictatorship (2004) and Afonso Costa - Portugal (2010). The first edition of his biography of Salazar was originally published in 2009 and was translated into Portuguese a year later. With co-author Robert McNamara, he wrote The White Redoubt, the Great Powers and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1960-1980 (2018). The following year he edited, with Catriona Pennell, A World at War, 1911-1949: Explorations in the Cultural History of War. He was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2017.