James Carl Nelson has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota and has worked as a staff writer for The Miami Herald. He has since covered some of the major stories of the day, including the terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City; the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado; the arrest of the Unabomber; and the deaths of twelve coal miners at the Sago Mine in West Virginia in 2006. He is an active member of the Western Front Association, which is devoted to the study of the Great War.

Books by James Carl Nelson

Five Lieutenants: The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in World War I

by James Carl Nelson - History, Nonfiction

FIVE LIEUTENANTS tells the story of five young Harvard men who took up the call to arms in the spring of 1917 and met differing fates in the maelstrom of battle on the Western Front in 1918. Delving deep into the motivations, horrific experiences and ultimate fates of this Harvard-educated quintet, the book presents a unique, timeless and fascinating account of citizen soldiers at war, and of the price these extraordinary men paid while earnestly giving all they had in an effort to end “the war to end all wars.”