G.W. Stephen Brodsky, CD, BA (Queen's U, Kingston; MA u of Victoria, PhD [DPhil Lit,]. U of York, UK), retired Special Lecturer in the Department of Literature and Philosophy at Royal Roads Military College, Canada, is a specialist in Renaissance Drama, Literature of War, and for the latter forty years more particularly Conrad Studies. He is author of (among other titles) Gentlemen of the Blade: A Social and Literary History of the British Army (1988); and preeminently, Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul (2016).  He has written extensively on Conrad in journals (The Conradian, Conradiana, Modern Fiction Studies), and has been an elected board trustee for the Joseph Conrad Society of America.