James Arnold

Biographie :

James R. Arnold is a military historian and the author of more than thirty military history books. In addition to his eight Napoleonic titles, he has written Grant Wins the War, a campaign study of Vicksburg, and Jeff Davis’s Own, a study of how pre-war experience shaped the future conduct of prominent Civil War generals who served in the Second Cavalry in Texas during the Indian Wars. His Americans at War: Eyewitness Accounts won the 2018 Army Historical Foundation’s distinguished writing award. He has also written two historical novels, about the Civil War and the Spanish American War: The Cost of Freedom and Freedom’s Children. For the past 25 years, Arnold and his wife have lived on a working farm near Lexington, Virginia.

Awards:
2018 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award for Americans at War: Eyewitness Accounts from the American Revolution to the 21st Century
2015 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award for Understanding U.S. Military Conflicts through Primary Sources
2011 Army Historical Foundation LTG Richard G. Trefry Award for The Moro War: How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902–1913
1995 International Napoleonic Society Literary Award for Napoleon Conquers Austria: The 1809 Campaign for Vienna
Published Works by James R. Arnold
Books:
October Triumph: Napoleon’s Invasion of Germany, 1806. Jena and Auerstädt. Lexington, Va.: Napoleon Books, 2020.
1898: Freedom’s Children. Lexington, Va.: Napoleon Books, 2019.
Americans at War: Eyewitness Accounts from the American Revolution to the 21st Century. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC CLIO, 2018.
Napoleon 1813: Decision at Bautzen. Lexington, Va.: Napoleon Books, 2015.
Health under Fire: Medical Care during America’s Wars. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC CLIO, 2015.
The Cost of Freedom: A Novel of the Civil War. Lexington, Va.: Napoleon Books, 2013.
Napoleon’s Triumph: La Grande Armée versus the Tsar’s Army. The Friedland Campaign 1807, Ralph R. Reinertsen, coauthor. Lexington, Va.: Napoleon Books, 2011. Polish-language edition published 2012 by Napoleon V.
The Moro War: How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902–1913. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
Jungle of Snakes: A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, 2009.
The Aftermath of the French Revolution. Minneapolis: Twe