"Marty Callaghan is a veteran journalist who has earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in history. He has been writing and producing documentaries about history and war since 1996, and has won several filmmaking awards. His Archives of War series has sold more than 10,000 copies in the consumer market since 1999. Recently, Callaghan has been commenting to media on the misguided war plan in Iraq, and how the Bush Administration failed to learn from British and French mistakes in the Middle East."

As a staff editor for the U.S. Naval Institute in Annapolis, MD., Marty played a key role in publishing Tom Clancy’s first novel, The Hunt for Red October. He read the first chapter of the book in the author’s home and got the manuscript to the Naval Institute Press, which published the book in 1984.

Since his childhood in Chicago, Marty has studied naval and military history. While serving in the U.S. Naval Reserve, he received the Naval Achievement Medal for outstanding work in journalism. His master’s thesis in history investigated the loss of the USS Thresher in April 1963 – the Navy’s worst submarine disaster. Marty has presented three papers at symposia sponsored by the U.S. Naval Academy, and his articles have appeared in various magazines, such as Naval History, Sailing, and the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings.

Besides contributing to dozens of programs in the consumer market as a writer and/or producer, Marty produced a double-DVD release in 2001 -- Pearl Harbor: America Taken by Surprise.

For the past three years, Marty has focused on documentaries related to the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. He has also filmed interviews and location footage across Turkey, Europe, and the United States.