The son and grandson of educators, Roland spent his early working years as a teacher and National Park historian in Washington, D.C. During World War II, he served as a captain in a front-line infantry battalion in Europe, fought in the most crucial sector in the Battle of the Bulge, and earned a Purple Heart fighting in the Remagen Bridgehead. After using the GI Bill to earn his doctorate in history at Louisiana State University--where he worked with Francis Butler Simkins and T. Harry Williams--he spent the next thirty-six years teaching history, first at Tulane University and then at the University of Kentucky, at the same time immersing himself in research and writing numerous books and journal articles. He officially retired in 1988 at the age of seventy but continues to be an active scholar, author, editor, and lecturer.
A succinct and satisfying epic of the life of a thoughtful citizen-soldier and scholar, 'My Odyssey through History' is also a valuable remembrance of major twentieth-century events.
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