Ralph Peters New York Times bestselling author of Cain at Gettysburg, is a retired U.S. Army officer; a strategist and veteran of the intelligence world; a journalist who appears frequently in broadcast media; and a lifelong traveler with experience in over seventy countries on six continents.

In addition to works under his own name, he is also the author, under the pen name Owen Parry, of a series of award-winning Civil War mysteries.

Peters has studied the Civil War since childhood. Combining painstaking research, years of walking those fields of battle, and insight into the souls of generals and privates gleaned from his own military career, Ralph Peters tells this great American tale in a masterful style.

His newest book is Hell or Richmond.