Rick Atkinson

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1. Rick Atkinson

   Author of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, In the Company of Soldiers, Crusade; the Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War

2. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, A History of Warfare, Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris

3. Stephen E. Ambrose

   Author of Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, The wild blue : the men and boys who flew the B-24s over Germany, 1944-1945

4. Max Hastings

   Author of Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945, Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, The Korean War

5. Cornelius Ryan

   Author of The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin

6. Robert K. Massie

   Author of Dreadnought, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

7. Stephen W. Sears

   Author of Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Gettysburg, To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign

8. James M. McPherson

   Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War

9. David Halberstam

   Author of The Best and the Brightest, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

10. William Manchester

    Author of American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964, Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War

11. Gordon W. Prange

    Author of At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, Miracle at Midway

12. Ronald H. Spector

    Author of Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan, At War at Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century

13. Neil Sheehan

    Author of A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

14. Harold G. Moore

    Author of We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam, We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam

15. Hampton Sides

    Author of Ghost Soldiers

16. John Bierman

    Author of The Battle of Alamein: Turning Point, World War II

17. James D. Hornfischer

    Author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

18. Barbara W. Tuchman

    Author of The Guns of August

19. E. B. Sledge

    Author of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

20. David Hackett Fischer

    Author of Washington's Crossing