Philip J. Potter is a graduate of Furman University with a B. A. degree in humanities and earned a Master’s Degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Following graduation, he spent over thirty years in the banking industry, where his primary duties were as financial researcher and writer of economic forecasts, investment analysis and portfolio strategies. The author has a lifelong interest in the study of history and has toured Europe over fifty times visiting the many famous sites and battlefields. He and his wife, Joyce, live in a northern suburb of Atlanta.