Daniel Halperin Kurzman (27 March 1922, in San Francisco – 12 December 2010, in Manhattan),[1] was an American journalist and writer of military history books.[2] He studied at the University of California in Berkeley, served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946, and completed his studies at Berkeley with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science.[3] At the end of his life, Dan Kurzman lived in North Bergen (New Jersey) with his wife, Florence. He died December 12, 2010, at the age of 88, in Manhattan. (His wife had died the previous year.)[4]