Biography

Kevin Boylan is a military historian who earned his BA in History from Rutgers University and his PhD from Temple University. In addition to a long career in academe, he spent ten years at the Pentagon conducting defense analysis for the US Defense Department and the US Army Staff, and is currently employed as an official historian by the US Army Center for Military History in Washington, DC. He has authored numerous articles (including two that won the Society of Military History’s Moncado Prize) and several books – the most recent of which, Valley of the Shadow: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu, was published by Osprey Publishing in 2018.