By Brendan O’Meara
“If you’re gonna be a writer, you gotta sweat.”—James Carl Nelson (Facebook)
Hey, there CNFers, what is goin’ on? You fired up? Comin’ in hot it’s James Carl Nelson, author of The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919.
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So James Carl Nelson is here and he’s made his bones with four books on World War I, a war that’s coming out of WWII’s shadow. All war is horrific, but WWI was particularly heinous. Its great failure was that it was supposed to end all wars. Nope. It most certainly did not.
James is also the author I Will Hold: The Story of USMC Legend Clifton B. Cates, from Belleau Wood to Victory in the Great War; Five Lieutenants: The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who led America to Victory in World War I; and The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War. He received the Marine Corps Heritage Foundations Colonel Joseph Alexander Award for Biography in 2017 and is a former staff writer for the Miami Herald. He is a Chicago Bears fan.
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