About the Author

The author received his medical degree at Stanford in 1957, practiced over forty years, and was Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF when he retired. In the years 1964-2012 he has published four medical books and twenty history books. The latter are mostly about the Civil War, with one each on Lewis and Clark and on the 1940 Attack on Taranto. He and his wife Beverly read all 75,000 Union courts-martial and created a searchable MS Access database. They have four children and six grandchildren.