D. M. Giangreco is an award-winning author of 12 books on military and sociopolitical subjects. His works include The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman, Delta: America’s Elite Counterterrorist Force, which he coauthored with Terry Griswold, and Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947, which won the New York Military Affairs Symposium's Arthur Goodzeit Award for Best Military History Book of 2009. Giangreco is also a former editor of Military Review, the publication of the United States Army Combined Arms Center.