Charles Reginald Shrader

Background

Charles Shrader was born on July 3, 1943 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, in the family of Reginald Woodrow and Freda Olene (Presley) Shrader.

Education

In 1964 Charles received Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) at Vanderbilt University. Then he earned Master of Arts at Columbia University in 1970, and Doctor of Philosophy at Columbia University in 1976.

Career

Charles served as a career officer in U.S. Army, retiring as lieutenant colonel in 1987. Later he was a General of the Army George C. Marshall Professor of Military Studies in U.S. Army War College in 1983 - 1984. Since 1986 he is a member of U.S. Commission on Military History and independent historian and consultant simce 1987. He also serves as a member of Carlisle Municipal Authority.

Achievements

• Charles is mostly famous for his books "U.S. Military Logistics, 1607-1990: A Research Guide", "Communist Logistics in the Korean War", and "A Guide to the Papers of the Commanding Generals and Chiefs of Staff, United States Army, 1775-1987."

Works

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  • The Muslim-Croat Civil War in Central Bosnia: A Military History, 1992-1994 (Eastern European Studies (College Station, Tex.), No. 23) 2003
  • A War of Logistics: Parachutes and Porters in Indochina, 1945–1954 (Foreign Military Studies) 2015
  • Communist Logistics in the Korean War: (Contributions in Military Studies) 1995
  • Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War (Studies in War, Society, and the Military) 2011
  • United States Army Logistics 1775-1992 : An Anthology Vol. 2 1997
  • History of Operations Research in the United States Army, Volume 1: 1942-1962 eBook: Charles R. Shrader: Books 2012
  • The First Helicopter War: Logistics and Mobility in Algeria, 1954-1962 1999
  • The Withered Vine: Logistics and the Communist Insurgency in Greece, 1945-1949 1999

Membership

• American Historical Association

• Mediaeval Academy of America

• executive director

  Society for Military History

  1992

• Oral History Association

• American Association for State and Local History

• Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations

• Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region

• Inter-University Seminar on the Armed Forces and Society

• Phi Beta Kappa

Interests

• Ameri¬can military biography and the institutional and intellectual history of the United States Army

Connections

On August 17, 1963, Charles married Carole Anne Analore, with whom he has two children: Peter Reginald and Sheila Lynne Shrader Bixby.

Father:

Reginald Woodrow Shrader

Mother:

Freda Olene (Presley) Shrader

Spouse:

Carole Anne Analore

child:

Peter Reginald Shrader

child:

Sheila Lynne Shrader Bixby Shrader