Gene Thorp
Author of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943
Associated Works
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 (2002) — Cartographer, some editions — 3,203 copies, 72 reviews
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General (2014) — Map Designer — 1,852 copies, 41 reviews
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 (2013) — Mapmaker, some editions — 1,784 copies, 52 reviews
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (2011) — Mapmaker, some editions — 933 copies, 39 reviews
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (2009) — Mapmaker, some editions — 720 copies, 23 reviews
They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 (2003) — Map Designer — 697 copies, 12 reviews
The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today (2012) — Mapmaker, some editions — 586 copies, 13 reviews
Private Empire : Exxonmobil and American Power (2012) — Mapmaker, some editions — 567 copies, 10 reviews
Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis (2013) — Mapmaker, some editions — 417 copies, 14 reviews
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century (2013) — Mapmaker, some editions — 416 copies, 11 reviews
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World (2008) — Mapmaker, some editions — 405 copies, 6 reviews
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (2006) — Mapmaker, some editions — 398 copies, 11 reviews
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination (2013) — Mapmaker, some editions — 395 copies, 15 reviews
Manhunt: The Ten Year Search for Ben Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad (2012) — Mapmaker, some editions — 336 copies, 7 reviews
The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda (2011) — Mapmaker, some editions — 286 copies, 6 reviews
Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War (2012) — Mapmaker, some editions — 237 copies, 6 reviews
Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan (2012) — Mapmaker, some editions — 201 copies, 8 reviews
Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation (2013) — Mapmaker, some editions — 127 copies, 5 reviews
The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Volume 1, South Mountain (2010) — Mapmakers, some editions — 100 copies
Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses (2007) — Mapmaker, some editions — 75 copies
The Chesapeake Campaigns 1813-15: Middle Ground of the War of 1812 (2014) — Mapmaker, some editions — 53 copies
Into Dust and Fire: Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazi Army (2012) — Mapmaker, some editions — 52 copies
Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian (2010) — Mapmaker, some editions — 40 copies
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- Gender
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- Occupations
- cartographer
- Organizations
- Cartographic Concepts Incorporated
U.S. State Department, Office of the Geographer
Washington Post - Short biography
- Since 1992, Gene Thorp has been designing and producing maps under the name Cartographic Concepts Incorporated. Throughout the 1990s he worked as a designer for several well known Baltimore-Washington area graphics firms. In the fall of 2000, Thorp joined the staff of full time cartographers at The Washington Post newspaper and there has been responsible for creating maps which range in size and complexity from simple locators to intricate, data intensive double truck spreads. The variety of subject matter he has mapped includes war, elections, natural disasters, disease, business, history, crime, accidents and just about anything else you can think of. His work at the Post has won him numerous international design awards. In the fall of 2015, Thorp joined the cartographic staff or the U.S. State Department, Office of the Geographer. [Website]
His freelance maps can be found in numerous books on the New York Times bestseller list and throughout major museums and parks. [Amazon] - Nationality
- USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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