Winner of the 2016 Army Historical Society Distinguished Writing Award. Fox Conner presents the portrait of the quintessential man behind the scenes in U.S. military history. John J. Pershing considered Fox Conner to have been "a brilliant solider" and "one of the finest characters our Army has ever produced." During World War I, General Conner served as chief of operations for the American Expeditionary Force in Europe. Pershing told Conner: "I could have spared any other man in the A.E.F. better than you." Dwight D. Eisenhower viewed Fox Conner, as "the outstanding soldier of my time." In...