Robert L. O’Connell has worked as a senior analyst at the National Ground Intelligence Center, as a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, and most recently as a visiting professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is the author of OF ARMS AND MEN: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression; SACRED VESSELS: The Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy; RIDE OF THE SECOND HORSEMAN: The Birth and Death of War; SOUL OF THE SWORD: An Illustrated History of Weaponry and Warfare from Prehistory to the Present; and the novel FAST EDDIE.

Books by Robert L. O'Connell

Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman

by Robert L. O'Connell - Biography, History, Nonfiction

America’s first “celebrity” general, William Tecumseh Sherman was a man of many faces. Some of them were exalted in the public eye. Others were known only to intimates --- his family, friends and lovers, and the soldiers under his command. In this rich and layered portrait, Robert L. O’Connell captures the man in full for the first time. Sherman was, as O’Connell puts it, the “human embodiment of Manifest Destiny.”