Vincent P. O'Hara
Naval author and historian
Vincent P. O’Hara (born 24 December 1951) is an American naval author and historian, residing in California.
Biography
Vincent O’Hara is an independent scholar with a degree in History from the University of California, Berkeley. O’Hara has authored, co-authored or edited seventeen books and contributed articles to publications, including Naval War College Review, MHQ, Storia Militare, Warship, Seaforth World Naval Review, America in WWII, World War II, and World War II History. He was an assistant editor of ABC Clio's Encyclopedia of World War II at Sea and has written introductions to two volumes of the U.S. Naval Operations in World War II series by Samuel E. Morison republished by the U.S. Naval Institute. O'Hara was awarded the Naval Institute Press 2015 Author of the Year for Torch: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory. He participated in the 75th anniversary commemorations of the Torch operation in Algiers and Oran, Algeria at the invitation of the U.S. State Department. O'Hara is a co-founder of the Western Naval History Association. He lives in Chula Vista, California.
Appraisals
of Six Victories "an up close and personal look at the factors that led to triumph and reversal, told from the perspective of “the hundreds of details that are the true fathers of victory. This work is a significant contribution to the naval history of the Mediterranean theater of World War II and one that students of naval history will surely want on their shelf." Randall D. Fortson, Naval History and Heritage Command.
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