Bevin Alexander (born 17 February 1929 in

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, United States) is an American military historian and author. He served as an officer during the

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as part of the 5th Historical Detachment. His book ''Korea: The First War We Lost'' was largely influenced by his experiences during the war. Bevin has served as a consultant and adviser to several groups due to his military expertise, including work for the

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, work as a consultant for

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s instituted by the

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, and as director of information at the

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. He is a retired adjunct professor for

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, in

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Awards and honors

Bevin's ''Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson'' was honored by the Civil War Book Review, an academic publication of the United States Civil War Center at

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, when it was named one of the seventeen books that have most reshaped Civil War scholarship.

Works

*''Korea: The First War We Lost'' (1987) *''The Strange Connection: U.S. Intervention in China, 1944-1972'' (1992) *''How Great Generals Win'' (1993) *''The Future of Warfare'' (1995) *
Robert E. Lee's Civil War
' (1999) *
How Hitler Could Have Won World War II: The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat
' (2001) *''How Wars Are Won: The 13 Rules of War from Ancient Greece to the War on Terror'' (2003) *''Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson'' (2004) *''How America Got It Right: The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy'' (2006) *
How the South Could Have Won the Civil War: The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat
' (2007) * "Inside the Nazi War Machine: How Three Generals Unleashed Hitler's Blitzkrieg Upon the World" (2010) *
Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World
' (2011) * "MacArthur's War" (2013) *''Such Troops as These: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson'' (2014)

References

External links

Official website

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