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Rachel S. Cox featured in Harvard Magazine Jan/Feb 2013, “Soldiers’ Biographer”

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Rachel S. Cox writes regularly for World War II magazine and the Washington Post. Her articles have appeared in CQ Researcher, AARP Bulletin, Landscape Architecture, and other national magazines. She was formerly an editor of Preservation magazine, and as a writer/editor at Time-Life Books, she wrote for the Fighting Jets and Civil War series. A resident of Washington, D.C., she holds a BA cum laude in English from Harvard. Inspired by the experience of her uncle Rob Cox, Into Dust and Fire is her first book.