The Remains of Company D - A Story of the Great War

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	THE AUTHOR

Author James Carl Nelson was born to write The Remains of Company D, having been captivated at an early age by his grandfather’s small story of being severely wounded and left for dead near Soissons, France on July 19, 1918. An avid student of military history, the author for years sought a way to portray his grandfather’s story, and finally found the entrée into the tale when a muster roll for Company D, 28th Infantry Regiment, U.S. 1st Division arrived in the mail one day in early 1999.

The author spent the next seven years researching the lives – and battlefield deaths – of the men on that roll, and the result is his first major book: The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War.

The author is a native of Chicago, and a 1983 graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Minnesota. Upon graduation, he began his journalism career in the Key West Bureau of The Miami Herald, and over the past quarter-century has traveled North America covering some of the biggest stories of our time, including the massacres at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989 and at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado in 1999; the arrest of the Unabomber in Lincoln, Montana in 1996; and the fallout from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. A member of The Great War Society and the Military Writers Society of America, the author now lives with his wife and two sons in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

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APPEARANCES

Author James Carl Nelson will be appearing at the following dates/locations:

October 29, 2009 – Presentation and Live Webcast, The Pritzker Military Library, 610 N. Fairbanks Court, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL. Click here or call 312-587-0234 for more information.

November 4, 2009 – Presentation and Signing, The First Division Museum, 1s151 Winfield Road, Wheaton, IL. Click here or call 630-260-8227 for more information.