Peter Cozzens - Author/Historian/Editor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 
Peter Cozzens is the author of sixteen critically acclaimed books on the American Civil War and the Indian Wars of the American West. He also is a Foreign Service Officer with the U. S. Department of State.
 
All of Cozzens' books have been selections of the Book of the Month Club, History Book Club, and/or the Military Book Club. Cozzens’ This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga and  The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga  were both Main Selections of the History Book Club and were chosen by Civil War Magazine as two of the 100 greatest works ever written on the conflict.
 
The prestigious Easton Press included This Terrible Sound as one of  thirty-five volumes in its Library of the Civil War.
 
The History Book Club called his five-volume Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars "the definitive resource on the military struggle for the American West."
Cozzens also was the creator of and series editor for Stackpole Books' Frontier Classics.
 
Cozzens's Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign was a Choice "Outstanding Academic Title" for 2009.
 
In 2002 Cozzens received of the American Foreign Service Association’s highest award, given annually to one Foreign Service Officer for exemplary moral courage, integrity, and creative dissent. He also received an Alumni Achievement award from his alma mater Knox College, from which he graduated summa cum laude.
 
Cozzens is a member of the Advisory Council of the Lincoln Prize, one of the nation’s foremost literary awards.  
 
Cozzens if a frequent speaker nationwide on the Civil War and American Indian Wars. Among his nearly one hundred public appearances, he has been a four-time featured speaker at the Southern Festival of Books, repeat guest speaker at the Chicago Historical Society, and  presented the 11th annual Hayes' Lecture on the Presidency in 2000 at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center  http://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/scholarworks/display.asp?id=501
 
Cozzens has appeared on Book TV and on the PBS series History Detectives.  
 
 
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A selection of the History Book Club and the Military Book Club
 
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