Author

Books by Hampton Sides

Hampton Sides is an American journalist and historian whose work focuses on adventure, exploration, and military history. He is a contributing editor at Outside magazine and the author of several acclaimed narrative nonfiction books, including Blood and Thunder, about Kit Carson and the conquest of the Southwest, and Ghost Soldiers, about the Cabanatuan prisoner-of-war raid in World War II. His reporting has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and other national publications. Sides is known for exhaustive archival research combined with novelistic pacing.