Geoffrey Perret

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1. Gabor S. Boritt

   Author of The Gettysburg Nobody Knows (Gettysburg Lectures), Lincoln, the War President, Lincoln's Generals (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books)

2. Geoffrey Perret

   Author of Winged Victory: The Army Air Forces in World War II, A Country Made by War : From the Revolution to Vietnam—The Story of America's Rise to Power, There's a War to Be Won: The United States Army in World War II

3. Samuel Eliot Morison

   Author of Leyte, June 1944-January 1945 [1944, 1945], New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944-August 1944, Operations in North African Waters: October 1942-June 1943

4. John Keegan

   Author of The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris, Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle

5. Stephen W. Sears

   Author of Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville

6. Harold Holzer

   Author of Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861

7. William Lee Miller

   Author of Lincoln's Virtues, President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman

8. Jeffry D. Wert

   Author of General James Longstreet; the Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier, The Sword of Lincoln, Gettysburg, Day Three

9. Ronald C. White Jr.

   Author of Lincoln's Greatest Speech : The Second Inaugural, The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words

10. James M. McPherson

    Author of Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

11. Walter J. Boyne

    Author of Beyond the Wild Blue: A History of the U.S. Air Force, 1947-1997 (Thomas Dunne Book), The Influence of Air Power upon History (Giniger Book)

12. John Darrell Sherwood

    Author of Officers in Flight Suits: The Story of American Air Force Fighter Pilots in the Korean War

13. Stanley Weintraub

    Author of Long Day's Journey into War: December 7, 1941, 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century, The Last Great Victory

14. James L. Stokesbury

    Author of A Short History of Air Power

15. James J. Hudson

    Author of Hostile Skies: A Combat History of the American Air Service in World War I

16. Rick Atkinson

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

17. Nathan Miller

    Author of New World Coming : The 1920s and the Making of Modern America, War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II, US NAVY: An Illustrated History

18. Clay Blair

    Author of Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942 (Modern Library War), The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950-1953, Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted: 1942-1945 (Hitler's U Boat War)

19. Carlo D'Este

    Author of Patton: A Genius for War, Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life

20. William C. Harris

    Author of Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency