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Books and Articles

Books

Tories: Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War
The Loyalist Corps: Americans in Service of the King
(co-author with Todd W. Braisted)
Mr. Lincoln’s High-Tech War (co-author with Roger MacBride Allen)
Declassified: 50 Secret Documents that Changed History
Remember Valley Forge
Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent
The Bonus Army: An American Epic
(co-author with Paul Dickson)
George Washington, Spymaster
Smithsonian’s World War II Memorial
(contributor)
Shark Attacks
Remember Pearl Harbor
The Washington Monument: It Stands for All
The Shark Almanac
America from Space
Animals of Africa
Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage
(co-author, with Norman Polmar)
Offerings at the Wall
Code-name: Downfall
(co-author with Norman Polmar)
Possessed; editions in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Holland, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, and Hong Kong. A movie by the same name, based on the book, was shown by Showtime. A documentary, “In the Grip of Evil,” which drew from the book, was broadcast by the Discovery Channel.
Murder in the Senate (co-author with Senator William Cohen)
The Blue and the Gray
CNN’s Guide to the 1992 Election
World War II: America at War 1941-1945
(co-author, with Norman Polmar) Selected by the New York Public Library as one of the top reference books of the year.
Merchants of Treason (co-author, with Norman Polmar)
War Games
Ship of Gold
, a novel (co-author, with Norman Polmar)
CNN: War in the Gulf (co-author with Norman Polmar and F. Clifton Berry. Sold more than 700,000 copies worldwide in several languages.)
Rickover: Controversy and Genius (co-author with Norman Polmar)
Treasures of the Tide (co-author)
Guardians of the Wild
Earth’s Amazing Animals (co-author)
America’s Wildlife Sampler (co-author)
Vanishing Wildlife of North America
A Short Life
, a novel (A movie was based on the book.)
The Last Inmate, a novel
Living in Washington (co-author)
The Quest: A Report on Extraterrestrial Life
Shadows in the Sea: the Sharks, Skates, and Rays


Articles

National Geographic Magazine:
Time Catches Up with Mongolia
Pearl Harbor: A Return to the Day of Infamy
Connecticut
U.S. Eighth Air Force: The Wings of War
Xinjiang; The Silk Road’s Lost World
Turkey Struggles for Balance
Deep Mysteries of Kaikoura Canyon
Remember the Maine
Return to the Battle of Midway
Cuba’s Gold
The Future is Calling
Lost Stories of D-Day
He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Military History Quarterly, Military History, Naval History, Military History, American Heritage, Grolier Encyclopedia, The Washington Post, Washingtonian, Popular Science Annual, American History, the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Seapower, and publications of the National Wildlife Federation.