Albert A. Nofi

Albert A. Nofi has a doctorate in military history from the City University of New York. A former teacher and administrator in experimental programs in the New York City high schools, he is the author or editor of more than 40 books on military history, numerous articles, and a number of war games. His The Gettysburg Campaign was cited in The New York Times as the best introductory book on the battle, and his To Train the Fleet for War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940, received the 2011 John Lyman Book Award in Navy History by the North American Society of Oceanic History and an Honorable Mention for the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History from the New York Council of the Navy League of the United States. Al is a founding member and director of the New York Military Affairs Symposium, a former Associate Fellow of the U.S. Civil War Center at Louisiana State University, deputy editor of North & South, and a regular contributor to StrategyPage.com. A sometimes sea cook, he lives in Brooklyn.