David H. Hackworth (1930–2005)

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1. W. E. B. Griffin

   Author of Semper Fi, Counterattack, Call to Arms

2. David H. Hackworth

   Author of About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, Hazardous Duty, The Price of Honor

3. Stephen Coonts

   Author of Final Flight, The Minotaur, Cuba

4. 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

5. Harold Coyle

   Author of Sword Point, The Ten Thousand, Code Of Honor

6. Bernard B. Fall

   Author of Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu, Street Without Joy

7. Dale Brown

   Author of Storming Heaven, Fatal Terrain, Battle Born

8. Stephen E. Ambrose

   Author of Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, The wild blue : the men and boys who flew the B-24s over Germany, 1944-1945, The Victors : Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II

9. William Manchester

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

10. Neil Sheehan

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

11. Cornelius Ryan

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

12. Tom Clancy

    Author of Into the Storm, Every Man a Tiger, Shadow Watch

13. Stanley Karnow

    Author of Vietnam: A History

14. Harold G. Moore

    Author of We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

15. John Keegan

    Author of The Mask of Command, The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare

16. James R. McDonough

    Author of Platoon Leader

17. Thomas E. Ricks

    Author of Making the Corps

18. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

    Author of It Doesn't Take a Hero

19. John Plaster

    Author of SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam

20. Richard B. Frank

    Author of Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle