STEPHEN E. AMBROSE is currently a professor of history at the University of New Orleans. He was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and has taught at L.S.U., Johns Hopkins University, and the Naval War College, and was the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of War and Peace, Kansas State University. Ambrose was the associate editor of the Eisenhower Papers and has written articles for numerous scholarly journals as well as a biweekly column on foreign and military affairs for the Baltimore Evening Sun.