Eric M. Hammel Explained

Birth Name:Eric Maxwell Hammel
Birth Date:29 June 1946
Birth Place:Salem, Massachusetts
Education:Attended C. W. Post College, 1964
Temple University, B.S. (journalism), 1972
Alma Mater:Central High School of Philadelphia, January 1964
Occupation:Author and Publisher
Known For:Writer on Military History, especially the U.S. Marine Corps
Notable Works:The Root : The Marines in Beirut, August 1982-February 1984
Awards:1981, Retail Advertisers' Conference, for radio advertisement for Kennedy Business Machines
1985, Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association Award of Merit, for The Root
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Eric M. Hammel (June 29, 1946 – August 25, 2020)[2] was a military historian, with a focus on the military campaigns of theUnited States Marine Corps in the Pacific War, and other military action in World War II as well as military conflicts including the Vietnam War and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Hammel wrote a series of books about World War II Flying Aces but his most influential book was The Root : The Marines in Beirut, August 1982-February 1984 on the subject of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings.

Hammel worked in several occupations before he settled on writing and publishing. He was formerly a stringer and contributing editor to Leatherneck Magazine.[3] He owned and operated a publishing business under the names Pacifica Press and Pacifica Military History. He died on August 25, 2020, of Parkinson's disease.

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  1. Book: Eric Maxwell Hammel . Contemporary Authors Online . . . 2008 . 2012-02-02 . http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=BIC1&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000041756&mode=view&userGroupName=fairfax_main&jsid=d0e57c96bc57ca1580ec2efbfd37ca18 . . Gale Document Number: GALEH1000041756 . Contemporary Authors Online . Gale Biography In Context.
  2. Web site: Remembering the life of Eric Hammel 1946 - 2020. beyondthedash.com.
  3. Web site: . 2012-02-02 . Contributor biographical information for Library of Congress control number 2011275228 . Eric Hammel is a professional military historian with forty books and nearly seventy magazine articles to his credit (visit www.erichammelbooks.com). He has been writing about U.S. Marines at war since the early 1960s and has spoken to large assemblages of Marines and former Marines over the course of three decades. He often has been invited to lead professional military education seminars at the Marine Corps University as well as at Marine Corps commands on the West Coast. For many years he was a contributing editor and West Coast stringer for Leatherneck magazine. He has appeared in numerous television documentaries on Marine Corps operations in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Beirut. Hammel has also worked as a freelance acquisitions and line editor, and for ten years operated his own military history publishing firm (Pacifica Press). He lives in California. .

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