James R. Arnold is the author of more than thirty military history books, ten of which are Civil War studies. His works devoted to the Civil War range from Jeff Davis’s Own: Cavalry, Comanches, and the Battle for the Texas Frontier, a study of how pre-war experience shaped the future conduct of prominent Civil War generals including a young Robert E. Lee, to Grant Wins the War: Decision at Vicksburg. His seven Napoleonic books span Napoleon’s career from his rise to power to his last victories. An eighth is currently in preparation. He is keenly interested in passing knowledge on to the next generation through multi-volume library reference sets for middle-school readers, including a six-volume set on the Civil War, ten volumes on the American Revolution, and thirteen volumes on America’s colonial era. He has also written two historical novels about the Civil War, The Cost of Freedom and Freedom’s Children. For the past thirty-five 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