Walter Lord (1917–2002)

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1. Walter Lord

   Author of A Night to Remember, The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories & Secrets Behind the Sinking of the Unsinkable Ship-Titanic, The Dawn's Early Light

2. Bruce Catton

   Author of A stillness at Appomattox, Mr. Lincoln's Army, Glory Road

3. John Willard Toland

   Author of The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War), No Man's Land: 1918, The Last Year of the Great War (World War I), Battle: The Story of the Bulge

4. Robert D. Ballard

   Author of The Discovery of the Titanic, Exploring the Titanic, Exploring the Lusitania

5. Cornelius Ryan

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

6. Gordon W. Prange

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

7. 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

8. Donald Lynch

   Author of Titanic: An Illustrated History, Ghosts of the Abyss: A Journey Into The Heart of the Titanic

9. Samuel Eliot Morison

   Author of The Oxford History of the American People, The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War, Operations in North African Waters: October 1942-June 1943

10. Robert K. Massie

    Author of Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter the Great, The Romanovs: the Final Chapter

11. William Manchester

    Author of American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964, The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968, Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War

12. Charles R. Pellegrino

    Author of Her Name, Titanic, Ghosts of the Titanic

13. Wyn Craig Wade

    Author of The Titanic, End of a Dream

14. John P. Eaton

    Author of Titanic: Destination Disaster, Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy

15. Stephen W. Sears

    Author of Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign, George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon

16. David McCullough

    Author of The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914, The Johnstown Flood

17. Jack Winocour

    Author of The Story of the Titanic As Told by Its Survivors

18. Daniel Allen Butler

    Author of Unsinkable: The Full Story of RMS Titanic

19. Barbara W. Tuchman

    Author of The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War: 1890–1914, The Zimmermann Telegram, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

20. John Keegan

    Author of The Mask of Command, The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare, Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris