Walter R. Borneman’s latest book on American history is Brothers Down: Pearl Harbor and the Fate of the Many Brothers Aboard the USS Arizona.
Others include
Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land (HarperCollins, 2003);
1812: The War That Forged a Nation (HarperCollins, 2004);
The French and Indian War (HarperCollins, 2006);
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America (Random House, 2008); The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King (Little, Brown, 2012); American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution (Little, Brown, 2014); and
MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific
(Little, Brown, 2016).
Borneman is also known in Colorado’s mountains as the co-author of A Climbing Guide to Colorado’s Fourteeners, the history and standard routes of Colorado’s 54 peaks above 14,000 feet, which was in-print for twenty-five years.