Background
Urwin, Gregory John William was born on July 11, 1955 in Cleveland. Son of John Thomas University.
( "Custer found himself in the one dilemma all soldiers m...)
"Custer found himself in the one dilemma all soldiers most dread—he was outnumbered and completely surrounded. With disaster looming in every quarter and no chance of escape. . . ." So Gregory J. W Urwin pulls the reader into a scene describing not the Battle of the Little Big Horn but a Civil War engagement that George Armstrong Custer and his troop survived, thanks to strategy as much as naked courage. Many books have focused on Custer's Last Stand in 1876, making legend of total defeat. Custer Victorious is the first to examine at length, with attention to primary sources, his brilliant Civil War career. Urwin writes: "None of Custer's exploits against the Plains Indians could compare with those he performed while with the Army of the Potomac." The leader of a brigade called "the Wolverines," Custer was promoted to major general and the helm of the Third Cavalry Division when he was only twenty-four. Urwin describes the Boy General's vital contributions to Union victories from Gettysburg to Appomattox.
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( American infantrymen served their country in the fury o...)
American infantrymen served their country in the fury of battle with muskets, rifles, bayonets, and bare hands. Gregory J.W. Urwin narrates the history of these men from their colonial origins through the War of 1812, the Mexican War, Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, and finally to their painful coming of age in 1918, as a world-class combat force on the fields of France in World War I. He describes their strategic and tactical challenges and documents how military leaders responded to changes and implemented new policies. Thirty-two color plates by illustrator Darby Erd accurately depict uniforms, arms, and accoutrements. Eight maps of campaigns and more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations accompany the narrative.
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( Although the siege of Wake Island was not one of World ...)
Although the siege of Wake Island was not one of World War II's biggest campaigns, it had a profound psychological effect on the course of the nation's struggle. This was the battle that first raised American spirits in the dark weeks following Pearl Harbor. For sixteen suspenseful days, 449 U.S. Marines, assisted by a handful of sailors and soldiers and a few hundred civilian construction workers, withstood repeated attacks by numerically superior Japanese forces. Although Wake finally fell on 23 December 1941, its garrison made the Japanese pay an embarrassingly high price for a tiny coral outpost. Based on interviews with over seventy American and Japanese participants, the riveting, you-are-there narrative pulsates with the crack of rifles, the stutter of machine guns, the roar of cannon, and the concussion of bombs. This is a military history from the bottom up, an unforgettable reading experience told from the perspective of enlisted men and junior officers who served on the front lines.
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Urwin, Gregory John William was born on July 11, 1955 in Cleveland. Son of John Thomas University.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Borromeo College Ohio, 1977. Master of Arts, John Carroll University, 1979. Master of Arts, University Notre Dame, 1981.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Notre Dame, 1984.
Instructor history St. Mary Plains College, Dodge City, Kansas, 1982-1983, assistant professor history, 1983-1984, University Central Arkansas, Conway, 1984-1988, associate professor, 1988-1994, professor history, 1994-1999. Associate professor history Temple University, since 1999.
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Member Arkansas Medal of Honor Commission, Little Rock, 1997-1999. Member Log Cabin Democratic Editorial Advisory Board, Conway, 1997-1998.
Married Cathy Ann Kunzinger, December 31, 1982. 1 child, Edward Gregory.