Richard B. Frank

Richard B. Frank (born 1947 in Kansas) is an American lawyer and military historian.

Frank graduated from the University of Missouri in 1969, after which he served four years in the United States Army. During the Vietnam War, he served a tour of duty as a platoon leader in the 101st Airborne Division. In 1976, he graduated from Georgetown University Law Center.

Bibliography

Frank has written several books and articles on the Pacific campaign of World War II:

• Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (1990) Reprinted in 1992. ISBN

0140165614 OCLC 25221918

• Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (1999) ISBN 067941424X OCLC 40783799 Reprinted in 2001. ISBN 9780141001463 OCLC 717932644
• MacArthur (2007) ISBN 9781403976581 OCLC 126872347

• "No Bomb, No End", in What If? 2 (2001)
• "Why Truman Dropped the Bomb", The Weekly Standard, (August 8, 2005): p. 20.
• "George Polk's Real World War II Record", "The Weekly Standard", (February 26, 2007)

External Links

• Panel discussion on the 132nd Infantry Regiment at Guadalcanal which included Richard B. Frank at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on October 23, 2013