Richard B. Frank

Richard B. Frank (born November 11, 1947) is an American lawyer and military historian. ^[1]

Born in Kansas, Frank graduated from the University of Missouri in 1969, after which he served four years during the United States Army. During the Vietnam War, he served a tour of duty as a platoon leader of the 101st Airborne Division. In 1976, he graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center. ^[1]

Bibliography

Frank has written several books and articles on the Pacific campaign of World War II and Southeast Asia:

Books

• Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (1990) ^[2] —Won the General Wallace M. Greene Award from the U.S. Marine Corps ^[3]
• Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (1999). ISBN   9780141001463.
• MacArthur (2007). ISBN   9781403976581.
• Frank, Richard B. (2020). Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, July 1937–May 1942 (First ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN   9781324002109. ^[4]

Articles

• "No Bomb, No End", in What If? 2 (2001).
• "Why Truman Dropped the Bomb", The Weekly Standard (August 8, 2005): p. 20.
• "George Polk's Real World War II Record", Washington Examiner (February 26, 2007)

References

1. MILITARY HISTORIAN WINS 2000 TRUMAN BOOK AWARD Archived 2016-05-11 at the Wayback Machine Harry S. Truman Library
2. Frank, Richard B. (January 1992). Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle. Penguin Publishing. ISBN   9780140165616.
3. "Richard B. Frank". U.S. Naval Institute. Retrieved October 22, 2020.
4. "Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War (1937–1942) with Author Richard B. Frank". The National WWII Museum. July 7, 2020.

External links

• Panel discussion on the 132nd Infantry Regiment at Guadalcanal which included Richard B. Frank at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on October 23, 2013
• Appearances on C-SPAN