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ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

JAMES D. H D. HORNFISCHER, a native of Ma.s.sachusetts, is the author of s.h.i.+p of Ghosts s.h.i.+p of Ghosts and and The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, which won the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and was chosen by which won the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and was chosen by The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal as one of the five best books on "war as soldiers know it." A graduate of Colgate University and the University of Texas at Austin, he lives with his wife and their three children in Austin, Texas. as one of the five best books on "war as soldiers know it." A graduate of Colgate University and the University of Texas at Austin, he lives with his wife and their three children in Austin, Texas.

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