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William Addleman Ganoe
1881–1966
A soldier-scholar with a lifelong interest in military history, this author wrote clear, wide-ranging books that helped generations of readers understand the U.S. Army and the people who shaped it. His work blends firsthand military experience with a storyteller’s sense of sweep and detail.
3 Audiobooks
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
by William Addleman Ganoe
Soldiers unmasked
by William Addleman Ganoe
About the author
Born in Pennsylvania in 1881, William Addleman Ganoe studied at Dickinson College and later graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1907. He went on to build a career in the Army and became known both as an officer and as a writer on military subjects.
Ganoe wrote several books, including The History of the United States Army, Soldiers Unmasked, and MacArthur Close-Up. His writing is especially valued for making military history readable and organized, drawing on both careful research and his own professional background.
During World War II, he served as historian of Army operations in the European Theater, and he later retired as a U.S. Army colonel. Dickinson College also recognized him with an honorary Doctor of Letters in 1952. He died in 1966.