Richard B. Frank
{{Short description|American historian (born 1947)}}
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Richard B. Frank (born November 11, 1947) is an American lawyer and military historian.[http://www.trumanlibrary.org/news/bookawrd.htm MILITARY HISTORIAN WINS 2000 TRUMAN BOOK AWARD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511012802/http://www.trumanlibrary.org/news/bookawrd.htm |date=2016-05-11 }} Harry S. Truman Library
Born in Kansas, Frank graduated from the University of Missouri in 1969, after which he served four years in the United States Army. During the Vietnam War, he served a tour of duty as a platoon leader in the 101st Airborne Division. In 1976, he graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Bibliography
Frank has written several books and articles on the Pacific campaign of World War II and Southeast Asia:
- Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (1990){{Cite book |last1=Frank |first1=Richard B. |date=January 1992 |title=Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle |publisher=Penguin Publishing |isbn=9780140165616}}—Won the General Wallace M. Greene Award from the U.S. Marine Corps{{cite web |title=Richard B. Frank |url=https://www.usni.org/people/richard-b-frank |publisher=U.S. Naval Institute |access-date=22 October 2020 |language=en}}
- Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (1999). {{ISBN|9780141001463}}.
- "No Bomb, No End", in What If? 2 (2001).
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160205223415/http://www.weeklystandard.com/why-truman-dropped-the-bomb/article/7093 "Why Truman Dropped the Bomb"], The Weekly Standard (August 8, 2005): p. 20.
- MacArthur (2007). {{ISBN| 9781403976581}}.
- [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/george-polks-real-br-world-war-ii-record-14436 "George Polk's Real World War II Record"], Washington Examiner (February 26, 2007)
- {{cite book |last1=Frank |first1=Richard B. |year=2020 |title=Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, July 1937–May 1942 |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=9781324002109 |edition=First}}{{cite web |title=Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War (1937–1942) with Author Richard B. Frank |date=7 July 2020 |url=https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/asia-pacific-war-richard-b-frank |publisher=The National WWII Museum |language=en}}
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External links
- [http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/132nd-infantry-regiment-guadalcanal/ Panel discussion on the 132nd Infantry Regiment at Guadalcanal which included Richard B. Frank] at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on October 23, 2013
- {{C-SPAN|40859}}
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