Craig Symonds, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Craig Symonds

American historian

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1946

Place of Birth: Long Beach, California, United States

Profession: historian, military historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Craig Lee Symonds (born 31 December 1946, in Long Beach, California) is the Distinguished Visiting Ernest J.
King Professor of Maritime History for the academic years 2017-2019 at the U.S.
Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
He is also Professor Emeritus at the U.
S.
Naval Academy where he served as chairman of the history department.
He is a distinguished historian of the American Civil War and maritime history.
His book Lincoln and His Admirals received the Lincoln Prize.
His book Neptune: the Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings was the 2015 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature.