Antoine Prost is Professor Emeritus at University of Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne and was President of the French Commission on the Centenary of the Great War (2012-19). He is the co-author (with Gerd Krumeich) of Verdun 1916, une histoire franco-allemande (2015) and the author of Les Anciens Combattants et la société française (1914-1939) (1977) and Les Français de la Belle Époque (2019).
