Brief Biographical Summary
D. M. Giangreco, served as an editor at Military Review, US Army Command and General Staff
College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for 20 years. Giangreco has lectured widely on national security matters. An award-winning author of twelve books on military and sociopolitical subjects, he has also written extensively for various national and international publications and news agencies.
Giangreco was awarded the Society for Military History's 1998 Moncado Prize for his article Casualty Projections for the US Invasions of Japan, 1945-1946: Planning and Policy Implications." Giangreco also won the Gerard Gilbert Award (1988 France and Colonies Philatelic Society) for his book Roosevelt, de Gaulle, and the Posts, and his article The Truth About Kamikazes, was the principal nomination of US Naval Institute, Annapolis, for the Association of Naval Aviation’s award for Best Article of 1997 on Naval Aviation. Giangreco's work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Russian (pirated), Japanese, and Chinese.
His most recent books are, Dear Harry on the correspondence of "Everyday Americans" with the Truman White House (2000), Artillery in Korea: Massing Fires and Reinventing the Wheel (2003), Eyewitness D-Day (2004), and Eyewitness Vietnam (2006), Eyewitness Pacific Theater by Barnes & Noble Books, (2008), The Soldier from Independence (2009) and Hell to Pay (US Naval Institute Press) in 2009.