Bruce L. Brager

Background

Bruce L. Brager was born in 1949 in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States.

Education

Bruce Brager studied at the George Washington University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Career

Bruce Brager has been a researcher and writer during his whole career. His works focus on issues in military history, government, and defense. His books cover a variety of time periods and historical events, including the United States Civil War, World War I and II, and the Holocaust. He also worked on modern political and technical topics, such as the energy industry, the United States defense industry, foreign and domestic government, and political science.

In The Texas 36th Division: A History, Brager explores the formation and history of this noted military unit. The 36th Division was formed in 1917 shortly after the United States became involved in World War I. Brager's detailed history covers the division's early years, World War I service, status as a Texas National Guard unit between the wars, and the division's combat service in Italy and France during World War II.

Brager takes up volatile post-World War II issues in The Trial of Adolf Eichmann: The Holocaust on Trial. Eichmann was a senior Nazi official responsible for, among other things, the development of the railway system that carried Jews and others to the concentration camps. Eichmann eluded capture after World War II, but in the late 1950s, reports began to surface that he was seen in Argentina. Brager's book provides an in-depth account of the search, Eichmann's eventual capture, his return to Israel in 1961, and his subsequent trial for war crimes.

Brager's other books include Petersburg, The Monitor vs. the Merrimack, The Iron Curtain: The Cold War in Europe, the most recent Grant's Victory: How Ulysses S. Grant Won the Civil War, and others.

In addition to his books and articles, Brager researched and wrote scripts and served as an editor for an interactive CD-ROM on the American Civil War. He wrote and edited multimedia training materials on issues in the hydrocarbon industry, including production, industrial design, management, and safety, researched low-intensity warfare for United States Army contingency planning studies, and prepared technical manuals and guides on energy production, urban development, and recycling. He also created, edited, and published a newspaper on Southern Africa.

Achievements

• Bruce Brager is known as a researcher and writer with a particular interest in military history, defense, foreign policy, and energy policy. His numerous writings were highly recognized and received a wide reception.

Works

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  • John Paul Jones: America's Sailor

    (John Paul Jones: America's Sailor is a biography of John ...)

    2006
  • John Kerry: Senator From Massachusetts

    (John Kerry: Senator From Massachusetts presents the life ...)

    2005
  • The Trial of Adolf Eichmann: The Holocaust on Trial

    (Although criticized as being more spectacle than legal pr...)

    1999
  • Grant's Victory: How Ulysses Grant Won the Civil War

    (Two of the great themes of the Civil War are how Lincoln ...)

    2020
  • Petersburg

    (Petersburg describes the details and significance of the ...)

    2003
  • There He Stands: The Story of Stonewall Jackson

    (There He Stands: The Story of Stonewall Jackson traces th...)

    2004
  • The Texas 36th Division: A History

    (The 36th Division was formed in 1917, just after the Unit...)

    2002
  • The Monitor vs. the Merrimack

    (The Monitor vs. the Merrimack recounts the construction, ...)

    2003

Politics

Bruce is a supporter of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Views

Quotations: "I sometimes think I prefer photography to writing. But I realize this is because with photography I just get the fun part, no revisions, no retyping, etc."

Interests

• photography, music

References

• Bruce Brager's Twitter