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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Richard ADAMS

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Stephen E. Ambrose

James Anderson

James Anderson (1739-1808) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienMaxwell Anderson

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Arrian

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Rick Atkinson

Columbia University
Marcus Aurelius

James Bamford

James Bamford. Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007.
Aaron Bank

Aaron Bank the founder of Green Berets ~ Official U.S. Army Portrait
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
David Barton

© WallBuilders
William Bayer, Illustrated by Picture Research By

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Robert Bolt

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gabor S. Boritt

Photograph by Liz Boritt
Mark Bowden

Catherine Drinker bowen

Claude Gernade Bowers

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ray Bradbury

Omar N. Bradley

Department of Defense photo
(trumanlibrary.org)
George Brandes

Courtesy of the Royal Danish Library/ Dept. of Maps, Prints and Photographs (image use requires permission from the RDL).
Gyles Daubeney Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
J.H. Breasted

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Great Britain.,

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Thomas B. Buell

Library of Congress
ed) Robert Burns (Robertson

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bob Burton

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Robert Byrne

Julius Caesar

public domain
John Calvin

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-72002)
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lewis Carroll

Bruce Catton

Cellini

Mike Chappell

Jerome Charyn

Henry Cholmondeley Pennell

Image from 'From Grave to Gay' : A Volume of Selections from the Complete Poems of H. Cholmondeley-Pennell (1884)
Sir Winston Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Cicero

from Wikipedia
Tom Clancy

Champ Clark

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-27529)
Karl Von Clausewitz

American Kennel Club

Hound Group, AKC World Series of Dog Shows, Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas, 2006. Photo by Ed Schipul / Wikimedia Commons.
Eliot A. Cohen

Eliot A. Cohen, Counselor of the Department of State, Office of the Conselor, U.S. Department of State
Roger Cohen

© 2004 Fred Conrad
Robert Conquest

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin wipes a tear after being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. Looking on are fellow recipients Robert Conquest, left, and Alan Greenspan.
Tim Pat Coogan

From www.timpatcoogan.com
Ann Coulter

Aleister Crowley

Richard Curtis

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
George Armstrong Custer

General George A Custer, from a wartime photograph.
ERICH VON DÂNIKEN

by Michal Maňas
U.S. Army

defenselink.mil
WAR DEPARTMENT

Great Seal of the U.S. War Department
Rene Decartes

from Wikipedia
Reader's Digest Editors

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
John Donne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Allen W. Dulles

Will Durant

Eknath Easwaran

Monastic Dialogue
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Maurice Francis Egan

Adolf Eichmann

Eichmann on trial in Jerusalem, 1961.
(ushmm.org)
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Portrait photograph, taken circa late 1943.
(history.navy.mil)
Sergei M. Translated and Edited by Ivor Montagu Eisenstein

Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Howard Fast

John Fell

Painting by Sir Peter Lely (Wikimedia Commons)
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Ferdinand Foch

Kenneth Follete

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
C.S. Forester

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
R. F. Foster

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Harry G. Frankfurt

Prof. Harry G. Frankfurt. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2002 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Tommy Franks

Photo from U.S. Central Command (Wikipedia)
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
George MacDonald Fraser

Karl Von Frisch

Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Brian Froud

tinyfroglet, July 28, 2007
J. F. C. Fuller

Image from Tanks, 1914-1918; the log-book of a pioneer (1919) by Sir Albert Gerald Stern
John Lewis Gaddis

Jose Ortega Y. Gasset

James M. Gavin

Reinhard Gehlen

Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Carroll V. Glines

C.V. Glines at the podium during the Raiders Homecoming luncheon at the Emerald Coast Conference Center, Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., May 30, 2008. (U.S. Air Force photo by Lance Cheung/Released)
(defenseimagery.mil)
John Bagot Glubb

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-18907)
(cropped)
Joseph Goebbels

Norman Golb

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
linkWilliam Goldman

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Neil Grant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ulysses S. Grant

Major-General U.S. Grant, etching from a photograph probably taken in 1863.
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Michael Green

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
W. E. B. Griffin

Elizabeth Griffith

Heinz Guderian

Field Marshal Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (17 June 1888 – 14 May 1954) Source: Das Jauerniger Blatt, 1945
A.B. Guthrie

David H. Hackworth

Edward T. Hall

Photo courtesy of Kathryn Sorrells
Kay Halle

Kay Halle, 1938. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Richard Halliburton

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Manly P. Hall

Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990)
Alexander Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Sir Basil Liddel Hart

carl.army.mil
Max Hastings

Stephen W.; Introduction by Sagan Hawking, Carl

from Wikipedia
Ken Hechler

DoD photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Molly A. Burgess, U.S. Navy. (Released)
Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Chaim Herzog

www.president.gov.il
Herman Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Christopher Hibbert

Adolph Hitler

Ho Chi Minh

wikipedia
Christopher Hodapp

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Francis Clark Howell

Courtesy of the Howell Family
Rupert Hughes

Mr. & Mrs. Rupert Hughes ~ George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Samuel P. Huntington

Peter Lauth / World Economic Forum
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Vicente Blasco Ibanez

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-29028
David John Cawdell Irving

March 2003: David Irving at 65 photograph outside Public Records office (National Archives) London
A. J. Jacobs

John Jakes

JEROME K. JEROME

Robert U. Johnson

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ61-1494)
(cropped)
Terry Jones

David Kahn

from Wikipedia
MacKinlay Kantor

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117691
Wilhelm Keitel

Paul Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
George C Kenney

af.mil
Ronald Kessler

ronaldkessler.com
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Harold Lamb

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Robert E. Lee

Photo by Julian Vannerson (Library of Congress)
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Robert Littell

Philippe Mats
Emil (1881-1948) Ludwig

Martin Luther

Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Douglas MacArthur

Department of Defense
Niccolo Machiavelli

Zedong Mao

from Wikipedia
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Bill Mauldin

World Telegram photo by Fred Palumbo, 1945 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-127496)
Andre Maurois

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
H. R. Mcmaster

Rand McNally

Robert McNamara

LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto, Feb. 9, 1968, Cabinet meeting, White House
Golda Meir

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
James Mitchner

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Tom Miller

Photo credit: Jay Rochlin
John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
John Milton

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Bernard Law Montgomery Montgomery of Alamein

Harold G. Moore

Authors Joseph L. Galloway (left) and Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore (Ret.), USA, (right), share a light moment while speaking at an Officer Professional Development session at Fort Hood's Howze Theater. Photo by AMY B. BOMBASSARO, CIV, 2/15/2002
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Louise Muhlbach

c1860-1870, Library of Congress
Miyamoto Musashi

Painintg by Kuniyoshi Utagawa
Binyamin Netanyahu

Sir Harold George Nicolson

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Inazo Nitobe

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06329)
John O'Hara

George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Richard Overy

Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
C Northco Parkinson

Eric Partridge

G88keeper
George S. Patton

George S. Patton (1885-1945)
As Lt. General. Photograph by U.S. Army Signal Corps. March 30, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-25122)
Thomas J. Peters

Allison Shirreefs
Albert Pike

Brigadier-General Albert Pike, C.S.A., Commander of the Indian Forces at the Battle of Pea Ridge, etching from a photograph.
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Jane Porter

Jane Porter (1776-1850) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienChaim Potok

John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Conrad Richter

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117696
Henry M. Robert

photographer unknown
John J. Robinson

http://www.msana.com/jrobinson.asp
Erwin Rommel

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Theodore Roosevelt

RUNCIMAN STEVEN

Edward Rutherfurd

William Safire

Credit: White House photo by Shealah Craighead, Dec. 15, 2006, receiving the 2006 President Medal of Freedom
Carl Sagan

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J. D. Salinger

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
George Santayana

Philosopher George Santayana (10 April 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienWalter Scott, Sir

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Count Phillipe-Paul de Segur

Tardieu, Ambroise (1788-1841)
Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
Jeff Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Ariel Sharon

Credit: R.D. Ward, 2001 (US Dept. of Defense photo)
Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Gail Sheehy

John Skelton

Albert Speer

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Harriet Beech Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Sir Arthur Sullivan

Cigarette card (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Viktor Suvorov

Ronald Syme

wikipedia
Tacitus

Maxwell D. Taylor

Maxwell Davenport Taylor (1901-1987), portrait of Gen. Taylor as Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
Thomas Aquinas

Lowell Thomas

Sepp Ruschp, Heinrich Harrer, Lowell Thomas and Chiharu Igaya: Image ©
ÖNB/WienHenry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
New York Times

Robert Scoble
Helen Todd

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
graf Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Trigilio

Harry S Truman

U.S. Army Signal Corps photo by Frank Gatteri
(trumanlibrary.org)
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Sun-tzu

Us Government

Cropped from "I want you for the U.S. Army nearest recruiting station" by James Montgomery Flagg. Wikimedia Commons.
Various

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Kurt Vonnegut

Arthur Edward Waite

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Joseph Wambaugh

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
George Washington

Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Ezer Weizman

www.president.gov.il
Rebecca West

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles Whiting

Mr. Whiting, at age 80, with a copy of his first novel.
[supplied by user iamiam (publisher)]
Courtney Whitney

Brig. Gen. Courtney Whitney (left); Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Commander in Chief of U.N. Forces; and Maj. Gen. Edward M. Almond observe the shelling of Inchon from the U.S.S. Mt. McKinley, September 15, 1950. Photo by Nutter (Army)
(defenseimagery.mil)
Wilson Colin

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Tom Wolfe

HERMAN WOUK

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
N. C. Wyeth

C. 1920. Unknown photographer from Wikipedia Commons. Photographer Source: Charles Scribner's Sons Art Reference Dept. records, 1839-1962, Smithsonian
Xenophon

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
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