Michael B. Graham

Michael B. Graham, PhD, is the bestselling author of the acclaimed "The Coal River Valley in the Civil War: West Virginia Mountains, 1861." His most recent book, "On This Day in West Virginia Civil War History," was a 2015 release of The History Press.

Over the last three decades, Graham has authored or coauthored seven books of non-fiction. Two have been genre bestsellers. His first work of military history, the prize-winning "Mantle of Heroism: Battle for Tarawa and the Struggle for the Gilberts, November 1943," won the Main Selection of the Military Book Club Award. He won the prestigious Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Annual Dissertation Fellowship for significant contribution to the study and understanding of Marine Corps history.

He was principal contributing author of "Fall of the Rising Sun: The Pacific Theater," Vol. 2, and contributor to "Liberating a Continent: The European Theater," Vol. 1, in the Veterans of Foreign Wars series "The Faces of Victory: The United States in World War II."

Graham is adjunct professor of history, security and global studies at American Military University, Charles Town, West Virginia. He graduated from the Air War College and attended the Naval War and Marine Corps Command and Staff Colleges, the Foreign Service Institute, the Academy for Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, among others.

Photos and additional information are available at Graham's website, http://www.michaelgrahambooks.com