Cyril McNeile, MC (born Herman Cyril McNeile; 1888–1937) was a British soldier and author.
 During the First World War he wrote short stories based on his experiences in the trenches with the Royal Engineers.
 These were published in the "Daily Mail" under the pseudonym Sapper, the nickname of his regiment, and were later published as collections through Hodder & Stoughton.
 McNeile also wrote a series of articles titled "The Making of an Officer", which appeared under the initials C. N., in five issues of "The Times" between 8 and 14 June 1916; these were also subsequently collected together and published.
 During the course of the war, McNeile wrote more than 80 collected and uncollected stories.
"Soldier From Tomorrow" (later reprinted under the title "Soldier") is a 1957 science fiction short story by Harlan Ellison, originally published in "Fantastic Universe" in October 1957.
 Its protagonist is Qarlo Clobregnny, a soldier from thousands of years in the future, who has been conditioned from birth by the State (the "Tri-Continenters") solely to fight and kill the enemy (the "Ruskie-Chinks").
 After time traveling to the present, Qarlo is "civilized" by Lyle Sims, a government agent, and Soames, a philologist, and eventually goes on a lecture tour to warn of the coming armageddon.
 Ellison loosely adapted the story for his script for the 1964 "The Outer Limits" episode "Soldier".
The Last Valley (1959), by J. B. Pick, is an historical novel about the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).
 The story occurs from September 1637 to March 1638, and centres on two men – a mercenary soldier and an intellectual – who are fleeing the destruction and starvation wrought by religious war.
 In southern Germany, each man stumbles upon a fertile valley untouched by the war.
 Soldier and intellectual, man of arms and man of mind, must collaborate to preserve the peace and plenty of the last valley from the stress and strain of the religious bigotry that caused thirty years of war in Europe.
Patton is a 1970 American epic biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II.
 It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates and Karl Michael Vogler.
 It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, who based their screenplay on the biography "Patton: Ordeal and Triumph" by Ladislas Farago and Omar Bradley's memoir "A Soldier's Story".
 The film was shot in 65 mm Dimension 150 by cinematographer Fred J. Koenekamp and has a music score by Jerry Goldsmith.
General of the Army Omar Nelson Bradley (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981), nicknamed "Brad", was a highly distinguished senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II.
 Bradley was the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the U.S. military's policy-making in the Korean War.
Aníbal Augusto Milhais GOTE (nickname "Soldier Millions"; July 9, 1895 – June 3, 1970) was the most decorated Portuguese soldier of World War I and the only Portuguese soldier awarded the highest national honour, the Military Order of the Tower and of the Sword, of Valour, Loyalty and Merit on the battlefield instead of the usual public ceremony in Lisbon.
The Silver Donkey is a young-adult fiction book written by Sonya Hartnett, set during World War I.
 The book traces the journey of an English soldier who deserts the war and comes across two young girls in the French countryside, Marcelle and Coco.
 The girls help the soldier, who suffers psychological blindness as an effect of post-traumatic stress, to plan a way to cross the English Channel back to his brother.
 The girls bring him food and, in turn, he tells them moralistic tales about courage, perseverance and trying your best at all odds.
 Though his stories are fiction, one is not; the story of his younger brother John who, while being extremely ill, finds a small silver donkey whilst digging in the garden.
 The soldier carries the silver donkey with him everywhere for luck, hope and inspiration, which along with hope and luck, spread to Coco when the soldier gives her the donkey.
 The soldier told the children stories about donkeys and how donkeys are brave and loyal to humans.
Edward Page Mitchell (1852–1927) was an American editorial and short story writer for "The Sun", a daily newspaper in New York City.
 He became that newspaper's editor in 1897, succeeding Charles Anderson Dana.
 Mitchell was recognized as a major figure in the early development of the science fiction genre.
 Mitchell wrote fiction about a man rendered invisible by scientific means ("The Crystal Man", published in 1881) before H.G. Wells's "The Invisible Man", wrote about a time-travel machine ("The Clock that Went Backward") before Wells's "The Time Machine", wrote about faster-than-light travel ("The Tachypomp"; now perhaps his best-known work) in 1874, a thinking computer and a cyborg in 1879 ("The Ablest Man in the World"), and also wrote the earliest known stories about matter transmission or teleportation ("The Man without a Body", 1877) and a superior mutant ("Old Squids and Little Speller").
 "Exchanging Their Souls" (1877) is one of the earliest fictional accounts of mind transfer.
 Mitchell retired in 1926, a year before dying of a cerebral hemorrhage.
The Crucified Soldier refers to the widespread atrocity propaganda story of an Allied soldier serving in the Canadian Corps who may have been crucified with bayonets on a barn door or a tree, while fighting on the Western Front during World War I.
 Three witnesses said they saw an unidentified crucified Canadian soldier near the battlefield of Ypres, Belgium on or around 24 April 1915, but there was no conclusive proof such a crucifixion actually occurred.
 The eyewitness accounts were somewhat contradictory, no crucified body was found, and no knowledge was uncovered at the time about the identity of the supposedly crucified soldier.
 During World War II the story was used by the Nazis as an example of British propaganda.
Surrender of a Confederate Soldier is an 1873 painting by Julian Scott in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
 The painting depicts an injured soldier of the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War (1861 to 1865) waiving an improvised flag of surrender.
 The soldier is accompanied by black man and a woman holding an infant: the black man is presumed to be the soldier's slave, and the woman and infant are presumed to be his wife and child.

Question: What was the nickname of the man who wrote "A Soldier's Story"?
Answer: "Brad"