Ralph Peters

Ralph Peters is an award winning, bestselling novelist; a retired US Army officer and former enlisted man; the author of numerous works on strategy; and a popular media commentator. In uniform and as a researcher and journalist, he has covered numerous conflicts and trouble spots, from Africa to the Caucasus, from Iraq to Pakistan.

Renowned for accuracy and authenticity, his Civil War writing, under his own name and as Owen Parry, has won numerous prizes, including the American Library Association's Boyd Award (three times), the Hammett Prize, the Herodotus Award, and the Meade Society's Order of Merit. In 2015, he received the Andrew J. Goodpaster Prize as an outstanding American soldier-scholar. His accomplished set of works includes the Battle Hymn series: Cain at Gettysburg, Hell or Richmond, Valley of the Shadow, The Damned of Petersburg, and Judgment at Appomattox.