Gregory J. W. Urwin
U.S. Military, Civil War, World War II
Urwin is a military historian whose work spans the American War of Independence through World War 2. He has published nine books, including Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island, which received the General Wallace M. Greene, Jr., Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and his latest, Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity, 1941-1945. Urwin is now researching a social history of the campaign that Lord Charles Cornwallis conducted in Virginia in the spring and summer of 1781, and recently finished fellowships at the William L. Clements Library and Anderson House, the national headquarters of the Society of the Cincinnati. Urwin has also authored many articles and essays. One on Civil War racial atrocities and reprisals claimed the Harold L. Peterson Award from the Eastern National Park and Monuments Association. Urwin has lectured at the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Philadelphia’s Union League, American Philosophical Society, William L. Clements Library, David Library of the American Revolution, Fort Ticonderoga, and U.S. Army War College. Urwin is the vice president of the Society for Military History, a fellow in both the Company of Military Historians and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and general editor of the Campaigns and Commanders Series from University of Oklahoma Press