and currently is in development as a feature film. The book has been optioned by Warner Bros. Similar in plotting to books such as On the Beach and Alas Babylon, One Second After, is set in a small college town in western North Carolina and is a cautionary tale of the collapse of social order in the wake of an EMP strike. Based upon several years of intensive research and interviews, it examines what might happen in a “typical” American town in the wake of an attack on the United States with “electro-magnetic pulse” (EMP) weapons. In March 2009, Forstchen’s latest work, One Second After, (Forge/St. More recently, they have have published two works on the events leading up to Pearl Harbor and immediately after that attack Pearl Harbor, and Days of Infamy. In 2002 he started the “Gettysburg” trilogy with Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich the trilogy consists of Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War, Grant Comes East, and Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant - The Final Victory. Night Shyamalan.įorstchen’s writing efforts have, in recent years, shifted towards historical fiction and non fiction. He received his doctorate from Purdue University with specializations in Military History, the American Civil War and the History of Technology.įorstchen is the author of more than forty books, including the award winning We Look Like Men of War, a young adult novel about an African-American regiment that fought at the Battle of the Crater, which is based upon his doctoral dissertation, The 28th USCTs: Indiana’s African-Americans go to War, 1863-1865 and the "Lost Regiment" series which has been optioned by both Tom Cruise and M. He is a Professor of History and Faculty Fellow at Montreat College, in Montreat, North Carolina. Forstchen (born 1950) is an American author who began publishing in 1983 with the novel Ice Prophet.
Forstchen is the author of more than forty books, including the award winning We Look Like Men of War, a young adult novel about an African-American regiment that fought at the Battle of the Crater, which is based upon his doctoral dissertation, The 28th USCTs: Indiana’s African-Americans go to War, 1863-1865 and the "Lost Regiment" series which has been optioned by both Tom Cruise and M. He received his doctorate from Purdue University with specializations in Military History, the American Civil War and the History of Technology.
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