Spencer C. Tucker is an American historian who was a Fulbright scholar, retired university professor, and author of works on military history.
[5][9][10] In World War II: The Definitive Encyclopedia, Tucker estimates that the death toll may have reached a hundred million.
[11] Tucker, an author on military and naval history, has written or edited as of June 2021 a total of 70 books in those subject areas.
Tucker has received two John Lyman Book Awards from the North American Society for Oceanic History: in 1989, for Arming the Fleet, and 2000, for Andrew Foote: Civil War Admiral on Western Waters.
The Cold War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection was awarded the Dartmouth Medal by the American Library Association for the outstanding reference work published in 2020.