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A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

James R. Arnold is the author of more than twenty books, including
The First Domino: Eisenhower, the Military, and America’s Intervention in Vietnam
;
Presidents Under Fire:
Commanders in Chief in Victory and Defeat
;
Jeff Davis’s Own: Cavalry, Comanches, and the Battle for the Texas Frontier
; and
Crisis in the Snows: Russia Confronts Napoleon, the Eylau Campaign 1806–1807.
He lives on a farm near Lexington, Virginia.