Forrest Carlisle Pogue Jr. (September 17, 1912 – October 6, 1996) was an official United States Army historian during World War II.

[6] He was a widely sought speaker, averaging around sixty speeches a year, until he was drafted into the Army in 1942 and promoted to sergeant.

[9][3] Pogue was first assigned to write a history of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force from 1945 to 1946.

In July he was assigned by Dwight D. Eisenhower to write an official history of the Supreme Command in Europe.

For the book, he interviewed Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Charles de Gaulle, Alan Brooke and others.

[8][12] He served as a guest lecturer at George Washington University and the United States Army War College, held the Mary Moody Northen chair in Arts and Sciences at Virginia Military Institute in 1972.