Omar N. Bradley was born in Clark, Missouri, on February 12,
1893. He was the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
only the fourth American to rise to the rank of five-star general.
He died on April 8, 1981, and was buried with full military honors
in Arlington National Cemetery.
Caleb Carr is the bestselling author of the novels The
Alienist and The Angel of Darkness, as well as a critically
acclaimed biography of an American mercenary, The Devil Soldier. He
writes frequently on military history for The New York Times and
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, where he is a
contributing editor.
"Superb history and literature...surpassed only by the magnificent
volumes of Winston Churchill." -- The
Saturday Review
"A Soldier's Story tells, better than any other book of its kind to
date, how the war in the European theater was fought and why it was
fought that way."
--A. J. Liebling, The New Yorker
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