Schubert, Frank N.

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SCHUBERT, Frank N.

SCHUBERT, Frank N. American, b. 1943. Genres: Military/Defense/Arms control, History. Career: U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC, historian for U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1973-75, Army Corps of Engineers, 1977-90, U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1990-93, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1993-. Publications: Soldiers of the American Revolution: A Sketchbook, 1976; Vanguard of Expansion: Army Engineers in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1819-1879, 1980; Building Air Bases in the Negev: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Israel, 1979-1982, 1992; Buffalo Soldiers, Braves, and the Brass: The Story of Fort Robinson, Nebraska, 1993, republished as Outpost of the Sioux Wars, 1995; Mobilization: The U.S. Army in World War II, 1995; (Compiler) On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier: Biographies of African-Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866- 1917, 1995; Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1866- 1917, 1997. EDITOR: March to South Pass: Lieutenant William B. Frank- lin's Journal of the Kearny Expedition of 1845, 1979; Explorer on the Northern Plains: Lieutenant Governor K. Warren's Preliminary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and Dakota in the Years 1855-'56-'57, 1981; The Nation Builders: A Sesquicentennial History of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, 1838-1863, 1988; (with T.L. Kraus) The Whirlwind War: The United States Army in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 1995. Contributor to books. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals. Address: 8505 Cherry Valley Lane, Alexandria, VA 22309, U.S.A.

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