Contributors

Jeffrey G. Barlow is a historian with the Naval History and Heritage Command. He has written more than a dozen chapters for books on the U.S. Navy in World War II and the Cold War and is the author of two award-winning histories— Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation, 1945–1950 (Naval Historical Center, 1994) and From Hot War to Cold: The U.S. Navy and National Security Affairs, 1945–1955 (Stanford University Press, 2009).

Thomas F. Kehr has spent more than a decade researching, writing, and speaking on the events and personalities of New Hampshire’s early Revolution. A past president and historian of the New Hampshire Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and a former vice commander of a Coast Guard Auxiliary flotilla at Portsmouth Harbor, he is known for his first-person portrayals of Governor/Senator John Langdon, the Continental Congress’ naval agent on the Piscataqua River.

Jonathan Parshall is the coauthor of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (Potomac Books, 2005), as well as numerous articles on Pacific war history. He is also the curator of the Imperial Japanese Navy Homepage at www.combinedfleet.com [9] . The COO of a software company, Parshall lives in Minneapolis. He is currently working on a new history of the year 1942.

James C. Roberts is president of the American Veterans Center and Radio America, a nationally syndicated news-talk network. He is the author of two books, The Conservative Decade: Emerging Leaders of the 1980s (with a foreword by Ronald Reagan; Arlington House, 1980) and Hardball on the Hill: Baseball Stories from the Nation’s Capital (Triumph Books, 2001). His articles have appeared in The New York Times , National Review , and Human Events .

Noah Andre Trudeau is the author of numerous books about the Civil War, including most recently, Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership (Palgrave, 2009) and Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea (HarperCollins, 2008). He is currently working on a book about President Abraham Lincoln’s visit to the Civil War front lines in March-April 1865.

J. Michael Wenger is a freelance naval historian specializing in World War II. With two coauthors he has written a forthcoming combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on Oahu for the National Park Service. The author or editor of ten books and numerous articles and reviews, he lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.