Life
He was born in New York City. He graduated from City College of New York,Awards
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* ''The Church of England in the first world war'', Columbia University., 1968 * ''Sir Norman Angell'', Twayne Publishers, 1979, * ''The airman's war: World War II in the sky'', Atheneum, 1982, * ''Overlord: D-Day and the invasion of Europe'', Atheneum, 1982, * ''Victory in the Pacific'', Atheneum, 1983 * ''The sea rovers: pirates, privateers, and buccaneers'', Atheneum, 1984, * ''War clouds in the West: Indians & cavalrymen, 1860-1890'', Atheneum, 1984, * ''The secret armies: spies, counterspies, and saboteurs in World War II'', Atheneum, 1985, * ''1812, the war nobody won'', Atheneum, 1985, * ''Aztecs and Spaniards: Cortés and the conquest of Mexico'', Atheneum, 1986, * ''The Yanks are coming: the United States in the first World War'', Atheneum, 1986, * ''Hitler'', Viking Kestrel, 1987, * ''Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars, 1690-1760'', Atheneum, 1987, * ''The war for independence: the story of the American Revolution'', Atheneum, 1988, * ''Inca & Spaniard: Pizarro and the conquest of Peru'', Atheneum, 1989, * ''Mao Tse-tung and his China'', Viking Kestrel, 1989, * ''The Spanish–American War'', Atheneum, 1991, * ''America and Vietnam: the elephant and the tiger'', Viking, 1992, * ''Stalin'' Puffin Books, 1993, * ''Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars'', Puffin Books, 1993, * ''Cowboys, Indians, and gunfighters: the story of the cattle kingdom'', Atheneum, 1993, * ''Virginia's general: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War'', Atheneum, 1994, * ''Unconditional surrender: U.S. Grant and the Civil War'', Atheneum, 1994, * ''The sea king: Sir Francis Drake and his times'', Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995, * ''Plains warrior: Chief Quanah Parker and the Comanches'', Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1996, * ''Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War'', Dutton Children's Books, 1997, * ''Empires lost and won: the Spanish heritage in the Southwest'', Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1997, * ''Terror of the Spanish Main: Sir Henry Morgan and his buccaneers'', Dutton Children's Books, 1999, * ''Sitting Bull and his world'', Dutton Children's Books, 2000, * ''George Washington and the founding of a nation'', Dutton Children's Books, 2001, * ''Dr. Jenner and the speckled monster: the search for the smallpox vaccine'', Dutton Children's Books, 2002, * ''Secrets from the rocks: dinosaur hunting with Roy Chapman Andrews'', Illustrator Albert Marrin, Dutton Children's Books, 2002, * ''Old Hickory: Andrew Jackson and the American People'', Dutton Children's Books, 2004, * ''Oh, Rats!: the story of rats and people'', Illustrator C. B. Mordan, Dutton Children's Books, 2006, * ''Saving the Buffalo'', Scholastic Nonfiction, 2006, * ''Commander and Chief: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War'', 2007 * ''The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America'', Dutton Children's Books, 2008, * ''Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl'', 2009 * ''Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and its Legacy'', 2011 * ''Little Monsters: The Creatures That Live on Us and in Us'', 2011 * ''Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives'', 2012 * ''A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown's War Against Slavery'', 2014 * ''Thomas Paine, Crusader for Liberty: How One Man's Ideas Helped Form a New Nation'', 2014 * ''FDR and the American Crisis'', 2015 * ''Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II'', 2016 * ''Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918'', 2018 * ''A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust'', 2019 * ''A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War'', 2021References
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