Hampton Sides

Hampton Sides is an American historian, author and journalist who writes narrative history and literary nonfiction. Among his books are Ghost Soldiers, a World War II rescue mission, and Blood and Thunder, set in the American West and New Mexico. Hellhound on His Trail, On Desperate Ground and In the Kingdom of Ice add military and polar history to his shelf. He is editor-at-large for Outside magazine and has written for National Geographic, The New Yorker and The Washington Post.