Washington post columnist and thriller writer and then the Pulitzer Prize winner last month and this month we are joined by jeff shaara military historical fiction author. Ranging from the American Revolution to the korean war and we will talk about all those in just a minute but we will start with a facebook comment that a viewer has posted on our facebook page. What exactly is historical fiction . Guest i have had this conversation with other authors it is an accurate historical setting but the people are totally made up thats a little different from what i do because i take you to these places with a lot of the real people with historical figures with names that you know like George Washington or Dwight Eisenhower were robert e. Lee it is fiction by definition because i put words in their mouth. My job is to tell you a story and not just do a textbook or names dates places facts and figures but to put you in the hands of the characters to tell you the story the way they would tell i
Jack davis. And mr. Davis is from independence, missouri. Has a bachelor, masters degree from sonoma state university. And many of you may know him as longtime editor of civil war times illustrated back in, i guess, the 1970s and 1980s when it was really the only popular civil war magazine. Its heyday. The best years that it was in existence. It still is, obviously. But hes the author, editor of 60 books relating to primarily to civil war, but also 19th century history, southern u. S. History. Think about that for a minute. 60 books. Among those, just a few, his i think first book was a history of the new market campaign, which i still think is a model small battle history, forty years after it was written. I think its one of the best small battle histories that have ever been written on the civil war battle. Biography of john c. Breckenridge. General history of the confederate war. Book on the end of the war in florida and other locations, cornered with him about the escape of souther
Jack davis. And mr. Davis is from independence, missouri. Has a bachelor, masters degree from sonoma state university. And many of you may know him as longtime editor of civil war times illustrated back in, i guess, the 1970s and 1980s when it was really the only popular civil war magazine. Its heyday. The best years that it was in existence. It still is, obviously. But hes the author, editor of 60 books relating to primarily to civil war, but also 19th century history, southern u. S. History. Think about that for a minute. 60 books. Among those, just a few, his i think first book was a history of the new market campaign, which i still think is a model small battle history, forty years after it was written. I think its one of the best small battle histories that have ever been written on the civil war battle. Biography of john c. Breckenridge. General history of the confederate war. Book on the end of the war in florida and other locations, cornered with him about the escape of souther
Jack davis. And mr. Davis is from independence, missouri. Has a bachelor, masters degree from sonoma state university. And many of you may know him as longtime editor of civil war times illustrated back in, i guess, the 1970s and 1980s when it was really the only popular civil war magazine. Its heyday. The best years that it was in existence. It still is, obviously. But hes the author, editor of 60 books relating to primarily to civil war, but also 19th century history, southern u. S. History. Think about that for a minute. 60 books. Among those, just a few, his i think first book was a history of the new market campaign, which i still think is a model small battle history, forty years after it was written. I think its one of the best small battle histories that have ever been written on the civil war battle. Biography of john c. Breckenridge. General history of the confederate war. Book on the end of the war in florida and other locations, cornered with him about the escape of souther
Jack davis. And mr. Davis is from independence, missouri. Has a bachelor, masters degree from sonoma state university. And many of you may know him as longtime editor of civil war times illustrated back in, i guess, the 1970s and 1980s when it was really the only popular civil war magazine. Its heyday. The best years that it was in existence. It still is, obviously. But hes the author, editor of 60 books relating to primarily to civil war, but also 19th century history, southern u. S. History. Think about that for a minute. 60 books. Among those, just a few, his i think first book was a history of the new market campaign, which i still think is a model small battle history, forty years after it was written. I think its one of the best small battle histories that have ever been written on the civil war battle. Biography of john c. Breckenridge. General history of the confederate war. Book on the end of the war in florida and other locations, cornered with him about the escape of souther