Now an independent historical consultant and lecturer, Dr. Falk is former Chief Historian of the U. S. Air Force. He was also Deputy Chief Historian for Southeast Asia, U. S. Army Center of Military History, and Professor of International Relations, Industrial College of the Armed Forces. A specialist in World War II in the Pacific, he is the author of Seventy Days to Singapore (Putnam, 1975), Decision at Leyte (W. W. Norton, 1966); Bataan: The March of Death (W. W. Norton, 1962); and other books and articles, including several textbooks on national security affairs. His essay “Douglas MacArthur and the War Against Japan” appears in We Shall Return: MacArthur’s Commanders and the Defeat of Japan published this spring by the University Press of Kentucky.
