Robert L. O’Connell was educated at Colgate University and the University of Virginia, where he received a Ph.D. in history. He worked for three decades in the U.S. Intelligence Community, before becoming a Visiting Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California. He has two grown children and lives with his wife in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Books in order of publication:
Of Arms and Men; a History of War, Weapons and Aggression – 1989
Sacred Vessels: the Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy – 1993
Ride of the Second Horseman: the Birth and Death of War – 1995
Fast Eddie: a Novel in Many Voices – 1999
Soul of the Sword – 2002
The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic -2010
Fierce Patriot, the Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman – 2014
Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged – 2022
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