William Addleman Ganoe

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William Addleman Ganoe

1881–1966

Best known for writing a widely used history of the U.S. Army, this soldier-scholar brought a professional officer’s eye to the long sweep of American military history. His work also ranged into biography and memoir, including a book on Douglas MacArthur.

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Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt

The English of military communications

The English of military communications

by William Addleman Ganoe

About the author

A Pennsylvania-born Army officer and historian, William Addleman Ganoe was born in 1881 and later graduated from Dickinson College before going on to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Sources connected with his books and alumni records identify him as a member of West Point’s class of 1907 and a career officer who rose through the Army while also developing a lasting reputation as a writer on military subjects.

Ganoe is most closely associated with The History of the United States Army, a substantial survey that helped cement his standing as a military historian. He also wrote other works including MacArthur Close-up: Much Then and Some Now, showing an interest not just in institutions and campaigns, but in the personalities who shaped American military life.

Late in life, he remained remembered both as an officer and as an author. An archival image from Dickinson identifies him around 1950, and the record of his life places his death in 1966.