He is the author of "On Tarzan, " "most succinctly bred, " "Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O Brien" (Iowa, 2005), and "The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Commanders in the Persian Gulf War" (with Neal Creighton, Greg Downey, Rob Holmes, and Dave Trybula), editor of "Arms and the Self: War, the Military, and Autobiographical Writing," and coeditor (with Catherine Calloway) of "Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O'Brien"."""show more