Stephen L. Harris is a former newspaper and TV news editor, and currently American editor of the Journal of Olympic History. His articles have appeared in MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, American Legion magazine, Yankee and Missouri Life among others. He is the author of a trilogy of nonfiction books about New York City’s National Guard regiments in World War I: Duty, Honor, Privilege: New York’s Silk Stocking Regiment and the Breaking of the Hindenburg Line; Harlem’s Hell Fighters: The African American 369th Regiment in World War I; and Duffy’s War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan and the Irish Fighting 69th in World War I. He holds a degree in English from Trinity College, Burlington, Vermont, and studied creative writing at New York City’s New School.
“No one writes about World War I with more empathy and
understanding than Stephen Harris. In Rock of the Marne, he
achieves a new level of drama and significance. In their stand on
the Marne, the raw Americans of the Third Infantry Division changed
the history of the war, the history of Europe, even the history of
the world. Harris brings this epochal event alive with breathtaking
vividness and skill.”—Thomas Fleming, author of The Illusion of
Victory: America in World War I
“A hundred years ago, the German Army was on the way to Paris. But
on the Marne River, some 27,000 brave American doughboys of the
Third Division thought otherwise. The resultant clash of arms
decided the Great War. Author Stephen L. Harris puts you right in
the middle of the action. He tells it like it was: good, bad, and
ugly, from baby-faced machine-gunners and hard-bitten sergeants
fighting for their lives to exhausted colonels and generals trying
to sort it all out under fire. This is military history as
its meant to be.”—Daniel P. Bolger, Lt. Gen. U.S. Army. Ret.,
author of Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and
Afghanistan Wars
“Stephen Harris has written a thrilling account of a critical, but
mostly forgotten, battle of the Great War, which includes an
unforgettable portrait of a magnificent American warrior, Col.
Ulysses McAlexander.”—Michael Hanlon, First World War Editor and
Publisher
Praise for Duty, Honor, Privilege:
“By tracking the Silk Stockings from enlistment through training,
battle and triumphant return to New York, Harris makes an
inarguable case that these sons of privilege did not flinch in duty
or honor. Clear, well-detailed writing.” –David Hinckley, New York
Daily News
“Stephen Harris has written both a soldier’s story and a long
overdue but bloody redemption of America’s most unfairly maligned
infantry regiment. Well researched, well written, and
entertaining.” –Rod Paschall, author of The Defeat of Imperial
Germany, 1917-1918
Praise for Harlem's Hell Fighters:
“The story of James Reese Europe and the Hell Fighters is one of
the best I know, and here it is told superbly. It is the story of
bravery and courage, creativity and controversy, tragedy and
transcendence. It reminds us, in nearly every line, of the
extraordinary contributions African Americans have made—not just to
American life, but to the very essence of what it means to be an
American.” —Ken Burns, award-winning documentary filmmaker
Praise for Duffy’s War:
“If you never buy another book on Irish-American military history,
get this one. It is magnificently written.” –Jack McCormack, Irish
Edition
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