Richard C. Anderson

Richard C. Anderson Jr. spent four decades as a historian, researcher, and defense analyst, including twenty-one years at the Dupuy Institute, where he briefed the Department of Defense, the U.S. Army, and the CIA and provided fact-checking for Time, The Economist, and ABC. His books include Hitler’s Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge (with Trevor N. Dupuy and David L. Bongard) (Harper, 1994); Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam (with Curt Johnson) (Texas A&M, 1995); Cracking Hitler’s Atlantic Wall: The 1st Assault Brigade Royal Engineers on D-Day (Stackpole, 2009); and American Thunder: U.S. Army Tank Design, Development, and Doctrine in World War II (Stackpole, 2024). Anderson lives in northern Virginia.