Richard B. Frank

Richard B. Frank (born November 11, 1947) is an American lawyer and military historian.

Born in Kansas, Frank graduated from the University of Missouri in 1969, after which he served four years in the United States Army. During the Vietnam War, he served a tour of duty as a platoon leader of the 101st Airborne Division. In 1976, he graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Bibliography

Frank has written several books and articles on the Pacific campaign of World War II and Southeast Asia:

Books

• Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (1990)—Won the General Wallace M. Greene Award from the U.S. Marine Corps
• Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (1999). .
• MacArthur (2007). .

Articles

• "No Bomb, No End", in What If? 2 (2001).
• "Why Truman Dropped the Bomb", The Weekly Standard (August 8, 2005): p. 20.
• "George Polk's Real World War II Record", Washington Examiner (February 26, 2007)

References

External links

• Panel discussion on the 132nd Infantry Regiment at Guadalcanal which included Richard B. Frank at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on October 23, 2013