Hans Milton Halberstadt (born February 29, 1944) is an American author, filmmaker, historian and photographer.
Halberstadt's books focus on portraits of military units, the mindset of modern warriors, equipment, tactics and missions.
His family moved to California about 1945, where he was raised in Marin County and graduated from Tamalpais High School.
[1] His early years were spent working in his father's photography studio in San Francisco where he was introduced to artists including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham, Benny Bufano, Keith Munro and architects Lawrence Halprin and Doug Bayliss.
After his years in service, Halberstadt returned to California and graduated from San Francisco State in 1968 with a degree in film and broadcasting.