Douglas E. Nash, Sr., is a West Point Class of 1980 graduate and a retired US Army Colonel with thirty-two years of active duty service in places like Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany, Cuba, and Uzbekistan. His many works include Hell's Gate: The Battle of the Cherkassy Pocket January to February 1944 and Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp: with the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division from the Huertgen Forest to the Heart of the Reich which was nominated for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.
