Background
Robert William Cowley was born on December 16, 1934, in New York City, to Malcolm and Muriel (Maurer) Cowley.
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
In 1956, Cowley received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University.
(A description of the last major offensive of WWI includin...)
A description of the last major offensive of WWI including pictures, maps and graphs.
https://www.amazon.com/1918-Gamble-Victory-Greatest-Attack/dp/B000LVNIH0/?tag=2022091-20
1964
(A collection of current writing in the field of military ...)
A collection of current writing in the field of military history features pieces that discuss theories on the origins of warfare, the Gulf War, the feeling of combat, the experiences of Israeli pilots in 1967, and more.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393031063/?tag=2022091-20
1992
(An encyclopedia of military history covers the wars of As...)
An encyclopedia of military history covers the wars of Asia, South America, and Africa, as well as North America and Europe, and includes information on the major leaders, weapons, the use of propaganda, the evolution of uniforms, and more.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395669693/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(With its in-depth reflections on the monumental events of...)
With its in-depth reflections on the monumental events of the past, this amazing book of essays ponders what might have been if things had gone differently in history. Featuring Stephen J. Ambrose, John Keegan, and many others.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002I1XRYU/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(Published in conjunction with the Academy's bicentennial,...)
Published in conjunction with the Academy's bicentennial, this handsome volume commemorates the first two centuries in the life of an institution that has become the model for military schools around the world. Since the Academy's founding in 1802, West Point graduates have been high-ranking officers and leaders in every war in which America has fought.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446530182/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(Stephen Ambrose tells the miraculous story of how a singl...)
Stephen Ambrose tells the miraculous story of how a single American company took the Remagen Bridge over the Rhine, a river Hitler had considered an impenetrable barrier. John Keegan takes us to Berlin in April 1945, all the way to Hitler's bunker, for the most intense city siege in history. Caleb Carr illuminates the only war Hitler ever won - the 1939 Blitzkreig campaign over Poland. We also meet Major General Edward King, the unsung America hero of Bataan; learn how forces inside the Japanese army worked to keep Emperor Hirohito's surrender from being announced to his people; and experience two riveting eyewitness accounts: the diary of an American tail gunner who made 26 bombing raids over Europe, and the story of a Japanese kamikaze who somehow survived his suicide mission against an American carrier.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005Y22A/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(The lawyer-historian Alan T. Nolan called the Civil War o...)
The lawyer-historian Alan T. Nolan called the Civil War our "folk epic told over and over again." For more than a hundred years, it has remained a powerful presence in the American imagination. With My Face to the Enemy is one of the most provocative and wide-ranging anthologies on the subject to come along in years. Its illuminating essays examine the war from perspectives that were critical to its outcome - the larger-than-life personalities of its important players and the national strategies and key battle tactics that shaped the four-year-long crisis.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000084QV5/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(The great war - or the First World War, as most Americans...)
The great war - or the First World War, as most Americans call it - was the true turning point of the century just past. It brought down dynasties and empires, including the Ottoman - one of the roots of our present difficulties. It changed the United States from a bumptious provincial nation into a world power. It made World War II inevitable, and the Cold War as well. Above all, the Great War was history’s first total war, an armed conflict on a world stage between industrialized powers.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375509097/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is s...)
Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States and the Soviet Union, two national ideological entities, waged proxy wars to determine spheres of influence–and millions of others perished in places like Korea, Vietnam, and Angola, where this cold war flared hot.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PSEQPG/?tag=2022091-20
2009
Robert William Cowley was born on December 16, 1934, in New York City, to Malcolm and Muriel (Maurer) Cowley.
In 1956, Cowley received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University.
From 1956 to 1964, Cowley was an associate editor at the American Heritage, and then he worked as a managing editor at the Sky. From 1965 to 1966, Robert worked as an assistant editor at The Reporter. From 1966 to 1972, he also was an articles editor, and then became a managing editor at The Horizon. Cowley also worked as a co-editor at the Saturday Review of the Arts, and then, from 1973 to 1977, he was a senior editor at the Houghton Mifflin.
From 1977 to 1984, he became a senior editor at Random House, and then at Henry Holt. Cowley was a founding editor of the MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, and then became an editor-in-chief. From 2004 to 2006, he held the position of consultant at the Smithsonian Books.
(An encyclopedia of military history covers the wars of As...)
1996(A collection of current writing in the field of military ...)
1992(Published in conjunction with the Academy's bicentennial,...)
2002(Stephen Ambrose tells the miraculous story of how a singl...)
2002(With its in-depth reflections on the monumental events of...)
2000(Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is s...)
2009(The great war - or the First World War, as most Americans...)
2003(A description of the last major offensive of WWI includin...)
1964(The lawyer-historian Alan T. Nolan called the Civil War o...)
2002Cowley was a member of the Society of Military History.
Cowley was married to Blair Phillips, but they divorced and Robert married Edith Pray Lorillard on June 24, 1978. Cowley has two children from his first marriage - Elizabeth Blair Roberts and Miranda Phillips Heller, and two from the second - Olivia Lorillard Wassenaar and Savannah Caroline Lorillard.