John D. Lukacs, a writer with a budding reputation as a World War II historian, specializes in one-of-a-kind stories—the unusual, the unprecedented and the virtually unknown.
His work has appeared in USA Today, The New York Times, ESPN The Magazine, World War II Magazine and on ESPN.com. Lukacs has made numerous local and national television and radio appearances, including on ESPN and C-SPAN, as well as Sirius Satellite Radio.
A hands-on historian who enjoys forensic documentary research and believes that first-hand knowledge of a geographical location is essential to fashioning a riveting narrative, he has explored World War II battlefields and historic sites throughout both Europe and the Pacific, including: the Ardennes, Bastogne, Bataan, Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest at Berchtesgaden, Cabanatuan, Corregidor, Coral Sea, Dachau, Fiji, Hong Kong, Guadalcanal, Guam, Hiroshima, Iwo Jima, Manila, Midway, the New Hebrides, Paris, Pearl Harbor, Okinawa, Rabaul, Reims, Saipan, the Siegfried Line, Singapore, Tarawa, Truk and Wake Island.
A former resident of New York City’s famed Hotel Chelsea, Lukacs, 34, is a 1999 graduate of the University of Notre Dame.