Christopher L. Kolakowski has spent his career interpreting and preserving American military history through positions with the National Park Service, Kentucky and New York state governments, the Civil War Trust, and the U.S. Army. He currently serves as director of the General Douglas MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Va., and his latest book, Last Stand on Bataan, a study of the Philippine Campaign of 1941–42, is scheduled for release in 2016.
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