Joe Wallis

Joe Wallis is a retired Federal employee who administered Historic Preservation Grant Programs for 35 years. He grew up in West Texas. He was a founding partner (along with Steve and Josie Sommers, Don Pielin, and Roger Garfield) of the Old Toy Soldier magazine, and has written 150 articles for that periodical since 1976. He published paperback editions of Regiments of All Nations in 1981 and of Armies of the World in 1993. In September 2011 he published a revised edition of Regiments of All Nations that is hard cover, has 500 color photos, and is 415 pages instead of the previous 260 pages. This widely used book is the standard reference on postwar Britain from 1946-66, while Armies of the World covers the period 1925-41.