Lamar Underwood is the former editor in chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life, and also the editorial director of the Outdoor Magazine Group of Harris Publications in New York City. He has authored or edited dozens of books, including On Dangerous Ground, Whitetail Tactics of the Pros, and the forthcoming Civil War Stories. He lives in Pennington, NJ.

A jumbo book of great stories about the military and war: 37 stories of heroes and tales of valor.
In War Stories, editor Lamar Underwood has pulled together some of the finest writings about war-fighting that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, newspapers, and magazines. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Baron Manfred Von Richthofen, Christina Olds, Randy Zahn, Eddie Rickenbacker, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Joe LeBleu, Michael Lee Lanning, Blake Stillwell, General Custer, Andrew Rule, Peter R. Senich, Major H. Hesketh-Prichard, Larry D. Stephens, Roy Chandler, William Morgan, Christian McBurney, James Otis, H. Beam Piper, Duane Schultz, Hampton Sides, Michael Haas, Ben S. Malcolm, Gina Cavallaro and Matt Larsen, and many others. It includes legendary tales from the French and Indian Wars, the Civil War, the Great War, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq - more than 250 years of warfare from colonial times up through the present day.
Enduring and irresistible, these stories of battles great and small are among the timeless standouts of the genre. In one volume, here is the experience of war brought to the reader with all the force and feeling great prose can achieve.