Donald L. Gilmore is the former senior editor of Combat Studies Institute and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Press at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he worked for seventeen years. He is the author of Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border, Pelican Publishing Company, 2005; The U.S. Army Atlas of the European Theater in World War II, editor (New York: Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2004); Eyewitness Vietnam: Firsthand Accounts from Operation ROLLING THUNDER to the Fall of Saigon Sterling Publishing Co., April 2006); "Revenge in Kansas, 1863," History Today (March 1993); and "Total War on the Missouri Border," Journal of the West (July 1996), awarded that journal's "Best 'about the West Article' in 1996." In 1998, Gilmore was a consultant for the Universal Studios, Ang Lee motion picture, Ride With the Devil, the subject of which was the Border War. Mr. Gilmore has MA and BA degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he was once a lecturer.

The Civil War on the Missouri Kansas Border
Meticulously researched and cogently written, Gilmore's bombshell book breaks new ground in describing what really happened during the brutal guerrilla war fought in America's heartland from 1854 to 1865. Finally, a dedicated historian of the fraticidal conflict in Missouri and Kansas steps forward with the courage to tell the unvarnished truth and with the scholarship to back it up.