Pritzker Military Library

January

1/12/2005

Fred Anderson & Andrew Cayton
The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America 1500 - 2000
Americans often think of their nation's history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood both as ...

1/20/2005

Front & Center with John Callaway
Soldier's Best Friends: Animals in the Military
From Hannibal's elephants to Patton's passenger pigeons, animals have been an important component of military operations. Today, many animals both on ...

1/25/2005

Colby Symposium
Turning Point - 36 Days on Iwo Jima 1945
A panel of top military writers and historians discuss the battle that changed the course of World War II on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the American ...

1/27/2005

Steve Coll
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Steve Coll's Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 offers revealing details of the ...

February

2/2/2005

Lewis Sorley
Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968 - 1972
During the four years General Creighton W. Abrams was commander in Vietnam, he and his staff made more than 455 tape recordings of briefings and meetings. In ...

2/9/2005

Front & Center with John Callaway
Special Edition with Alex Kershaw
Alex Kershaw is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Bedford Boys, and two biographies: Jack London, and more recently, Blood and Champagne: The Life ...

2/11/2005

Paul Dickson & Thomas B. Allen
The Bonus Army: An American Epic
In the summer of 1932, 45,000 veterans of World War I marched peacefully on Washington, D.C. -- their two month rally to demand immediate early payment ...

March

3/1/2005

Karen Spears Zacharias
Hero Mama: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost in Vietnam -- and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together
In December 1965, David Spears said good-bye to his wife and three children and went to fight in Vietnam; he returned "in a cargo plane full of caskets" in July 1966 ?

3/2/2005

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Sammy Davis
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life and beyond the call of duty. Sgt. Davis (then Pfc.) distinguished himself during the early ?

3/9/2005

Bryan Mark Rigg
Rescued From The Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe
The last decade has seen many books recounting the actions of German Christians who helped Jews survive the Holocaust. While this volume fits neatly into ?

3/16/2005

Dr. Williamson Murray
The Iraq War: A Military History
The practice of "embedding" journalists in combat units provided a good deal of spectacular, timely footage, but tended to restrict insight to the frontline perspective ...

3/23/2005

Front & Center with John Callaway
The Cost of War: The Family Perspective
While American troops are serving overseas, their families here at home must deal with both the anxiety of loved ones in combat as well as the day to day ?

April

4/12/2005

Sean Naylor
Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda
After the Al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001, America quickly toppled the Taliban regime that had sheltered the terrorist organization in Afghanistan ...

4/14/2005

Donald L. Miller
D-Days in the Pacific: Companion Volume to the History Channel Series
Although most people associate the term D-Day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive operation. In the ...

4/21/2005

Hew Strachan
The First World War
One of the leading historians of WWI offers this superior one-volume version of his massive projected three-volume work, the first volume of which, To Arms ...

4/28/2005

Front & Center with John Callaway
The Recruiting Office: The New Front Line?
The Army and the Army Reserves missed their March recruiting goals, as they had in February for the first time since May 2000. While the Navy and Marines ...

May

5/5/2005

Robert M. Citino
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare
When Germany launched its blitzkrieg invasion of France in 1940, it forever changed the way the world waged war. Although the Wehrmacht ultimately succumbed ...

5/11/2005

Richard M. Langworth
Winston Churchill's: The Dream
Richard Langworth is the founder of the Churchill Centre, editor of the Finest Hour, and a leading authority on Churchill. He will make a presentation on Winston ...

5/18/2005

Quang X. Pham
A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey
Quang X. Pham's A Sense of Duty, the first book written by a former Vietnamese refugee who became a U.S. Marine, is an affecting memoir about fate, hope, and ...

5/24/2005

John A. Glusman
Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as...