Thomas B. Allen

Books:

Remember Valley Forge (National Geographic, 2007)

The Bonus Army (Walker and Company, 2005). Paperback edition, Walker, 2006.

Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent (National Geographic, 2006).

Spectacular Chicago (Hugh Lauter Levin, 2006).

George Washington, Spymaster (National Geographic, 2004).

Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage (Random House, 1996). Co-author with Norman Polmar. New revised edition, 2004.

The World War II Memorial (Smithsonian, 2004). Contributor: "Victory at Sea."

Shark Attacks (Lyons Press, 2001).

Remember Pearl Harbor (National Geographic Children's Books, 2001).

The Washington Monument: It Stands for All (Discovery Channel Books, 2000).

The Shark Almanac (Lyons Press, 1999). A Natural History Book Club Selection.

America from Space (Firefly Press, 1998).

Animals of Africa (Hugh Levin Associates, 1997).

Offerings at the Wall (Turner Publishing, 1995).

Possessed (Doubleday, 1993. 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; a revised edition of Possessed was published by iuniverse.com in 1999.

Murder in the Senate (Doubleday, 1992). Co-author with Senator William Cohen.

Code-name: Downfall, with Norman Polmar, (Simon & Schuster, 1995)

The Blue and the Gray (National Geographic Society, 1992). A Book-of-the-Month Alternate Selection.

CNN’s Guide to the 1992 Election (Turner Publishing, 1992).

World War II: America at War 1941-1945 (Random House, 1991). Co-author, with Norman Polmar. Selected by the New York Public Library as one of the reference books of the year.

Merchants of Treason (Delacorte, 1988; Dell paperback 1989). Co-author with Norman Polmar. Published in England in 1989. The book appears in an espionage bibliography appearing on the CIA’s website.

War Games (McGrawHill, 1987).

Ship of Gold (Macmillan, 1987). Co-author, with Norman Polmar. A paperback edition (St. Martins Press) was published in October 1988 and in Japan in 1989.

CNN: War in the Gulf (Turner Publishing, 1991). Co-author with Norman Polmar and F. Clifton Berry.
Sold more than 700,000 copies worldwide in several languages.

Rickover: Controversy and Genius (Simon & Shuster, 1982). Co-author, with Norman Polmar.

Treasures of the Tide (a co-author, National Wildlife Federation, 1990).

Guardians of the Wild (University of Indiana Press, 1988).

Earth’s Amazing Animals, (a co-author, Natio-nal Wildlife Federation, 1983).

America’s Wildlife Sampler (a co-author, National Wildlife Federation, 1982).

Vanishing Wildlife of North America (National Geographic Society, 1974).

A Short Life: A Novel (Putnam, 1978). A movie was based on the book.

The Last Inmate: A Novel (Charterhouse, 1973).

Living in Washington, (a co-author, Westover, 1972).

The Quest: A Report on Extraterrestrial Life (Chilton, 1965).

Shadows in the Sea: the Sharks, Skates, and Rays (co-author, Chilton, 1963; reprinted in 1976). Sole author of new edition; Lyons & Burford, 1996.

Articles:

For National Geographic Magazine:

Time Catches Up with Mongolia, February 1985

Pearl Harbor: A Return to the Day of Infamy, December 1991, Connecticut, February 1994

U.S. Eighth Air Force: The Wings of War, March 1994

Xinjiang; The Silk Road’s Lost World, March 1996

Turkey Struggles for Balance, May 1994

Deep Mysteries of Kaikoura Canyon, June 1998

Remember the Maine. February 1999

Return to the Battle of Midway, June 1999

Cuba’s Gold, July 2001

The Future is Calling, December 2001

Lost Stories of D-Day, June 2002

Thomas B. Allen has also written for the following:

The New York Times Magazine
Smithsonian
Military History Quarterly
Naval History
Military History
Grolier Encyclopedia
The Washington Post
Washingtonian
Popular Science Annual
American History
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
Seapower
and publications of the National Wildlife Federation.

“Invasion Most Costly,” co-authored with Norman Polmar, in the Naval Institute Proceedings, August 1995, won the 1995 Eller Prize in Naval History.

His article on Cold War submarine missions, published in the March 2001 issue of Smithsonian, was based on a secret mission report to which U.S. Navy intelligence officials gave Allen exclusive access.