A leading authority on the history of the Korean War, Allan R. Millett is Ambrose Professor of History and director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. He is also the recipient of the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. Millett is the author of The War for Korea, 1945?1950: A House Burning and The War for Korea, 1950?1951: They Came from the North, both published by Kansas.