Alan Axelrod has written many works of military history, including
The Real History of the Vietnam War (2012), The Real History
of the Civil War (2013), A Savage Empire: Trappers,
Traders, Tribes, and the Wars That Made America (2011),
Selling the Great War: The Making of American Propaganda
(2009), The Real History of the Cold War (2009), Patton’s Drive:
The Making of America’s Greatest General (2009), Blooding at
Great Meadows: Young George Washington and the Battle That
Shaped the Man (2007), The Horrid Pit: The Battle of the Crater,
the Civil War’s Cruelest Mission (2007), Miracle at Belleau
Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps (2007),
Bradley: A Biography (2006), and Patton: A Biography (2006). Among
his reference books are Political History of America’s Wars
(2007), Encyclopedia of Wars (2005), Encyclopedia of the
United States Armed Forces (2005), American Treaties and Alliances
(2000), and The Macmillan Dictionary of Military Biography
(1998).
A former college professor and consultant to numerous museums and
cultural institutions, Axelrod has been a featured speaker at
the Conference on Excellence in Government (Washington, D.C.),
the Leadership Institute of Columbia College (Columbia, South
Carolina), and the Annual Conference of the Goizueta School of
Business, Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia). He has been a
creative consultant (and on-camera personality) for The Wild West
television documentary series (Warner Bros., 1993), Civil War
Journal (A&E Network, 1994), and The Discovery Channel,
and he has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, CNNfn, CNBC, Fox
Network affiliates in Philadelphia and Atlanta, and numerous
radio news and talk programs, including on National Public
Radio. Axelrod lives with his wife, Anita, an artist, in Atlanta
and in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina.
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