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Gregory J.W. Urwin
Gregory J.W. Urwin
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INSTITUTION: Temple University

Websites : Temple University Faculty Page, Books by Gregory Urwin

AMAZON: Author Page

BIOGRAPHY

Gregory J. W. Urwin is a professor of history at Temple University and current president of the Society for Military History. He holds his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and taught in Kansas and Arkansas before moving to Temple in 1999. Urwin specializes in U.S. and British military history, particularly the American War of Independence, American Civil War, and World War II. He is now researching a social history of the 1781 British invasions of Virginia. The author or editor of nine books and numerous articles, Urwin has won the General Wallace M. Greene, Jr., Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and the Harold L. Peterson Award from the Eastern National Park and Monuments Association.

Primary Contributions (3)
Portrait of U.S. military officer George Armstrong Custer by Mathew Brady, showing Custer in uniform with arms crossed and wearing a wide-brimmed hat.
George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer was a U.S. cavalry officer who distinguished himself in the American Civil War (1861–65) but later led his men to death in one of the most controversial battles in U.S. history, the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Although born in Ohio, Custer spent part of his youth in the…
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Publications (3)
Victory in Defeat The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity, 1941-1945
Victory in Defeat The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity, 1941-1945 (2010)
By Gregory J. W. Urwin
Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following their surrender to the Japanese on December 23, 1941. The highly regarded military historian Gregory Urwin spent decades researching what happened and now offers a revealing look at the U.S. Marines, sailors, soldiers, and civilian volunteers in captivity. In addition to exhaustive archival research, he interviewed dozens of POWs and even some of their Japanese captors. He also had access to diaries...
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Facing Fearful Odds The Siege of Wake Island
Facing Fearful Odds The Siege of Wake Island (June 2002)
By Gregory J. W. Urwin
Although the siege of Wake Island was not one of World War II's biggest campaigns, it had a profound psychological effect on the course of the nation's struggle. This was the battle that first raised American spirits in the dark weeks following Pearl Harbor. For sixteen suspenseful days, 449 U.S. Marines, assisted by a handful of sailors and soldiers and a few hundred civilian construction workers, withstood repeated attacks by numerically superior Japanese forces. Although Wake finally fell on 23...
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Custer Victorious
Custer Victorious (August 1996)
By Gregory J. W. Urwin
The Civil War battle of General George Armstrong Custer - a bold, fast-paced study that dares to strip away the derogatory myths of the past to present an accurate view of one of America's most controversial soldiers.