Stanley Karnow

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1. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Guns of August, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

2. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, A History of Warfare

3. Robert A. Caro

   Author of Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

4. Neil Sheehan

   Author of A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, The Pentagon Papers: As Published by the New York Times

5. David Halberstam

   Author of The Best and the Brightest, The Fifties

6. Rick Atkinson

   Author of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, The Day of Battle

7. Cornelius Ryan

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

8. James M. McPherson

   Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

9. William Manchester

   Author of A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964

10. Paul M. Kennedy

    Author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

11. David M. Kennedy

    Author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

12. Simon Schama

    Author of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

13. Robert S. McNamara

    Author of In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

14. Franz Schurmann

    Author of Republican China: Nationalism, War, and the Rise of Communism 1911-1949 (China Reader, Vol 2), Imperial China: The decline of the last dynasty and the origins of modern China, the 18th and 19th centuries (The China

15. Gordon W. Prange

    Author of At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

16. Harold G. Moore

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

17. Philip Caputo

    Author of A Rumor of War

18. Stephen E. Ambrose

    Author of Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, Nixon, Vol. 1: The Education of a Politician 1913-1962

19. Frances FitzGerald

    Author of Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

20. Ronald H. Spector

    Author of Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan