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December

12/11/2008

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
John F. Baker, Jr
John Baker had been a gymnast in high school before he joined the Army. One day, near Tay Ninh Province in South Vietnam, he put the first lesson of gymnastics

12/4/2008

Front & Center with John Callaway
An Update on the Guard and Reserve
The last several years have presented unprecedented challenges for the Reserve components of the U.S. Military and the National Guard. How are they handling ...

12/3/2008

Kimberly Dozier
Breathing The Fire: Fighting to Report - And Survive - The War in Iraq
A story on Memorial Day in Iraq was guaranteed to make the network news, figured Kimberly Dozier. She didn't know where her crew was going or what they would ...

November

11/22/2008

Rufus Phillips
Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned
As the new Vice President, Lyndon Johnson came away from his first cabinet meeting impressed. Kennedy, he thought, had put together a brilliant team. However ...

11/22/2008

Linda Robinson
Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus & the Search For a Way Out of Iraq
At the end of her time with General David Petraeus, veteran reporter Linda Robinson believed that something more valuable than oil had been found in Iraq: a ...

11/13/2008

Carlo D'Este
Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874 - 1945
After his first personal experience of battle, at 23 years of age, Winston Churchill wrote that "war, disguise it as you may, is but a dirty, shoddy business, which only a ...

11/12/2008

Jonathan Brent
Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia
Nobody in the Soviet Union spoke up for a few years after Stalin's death. In the minds of a long-terrorized public, dying was exactly the sort of thing Stalin ...

11/6/2008

Front & Center with John Callaway
Congratulations, You Won... What Now? U.S. Presidential Election Special
By November 6th, the votes will be cast, and the results will be in - after eight years, the United States will have a new President. But after all of the pomp and

October

10/30/2008

Joyce Hoffman
On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam
For female reporters who wanted to cover the long, brutal war in Vietnam, the challenge began before they even left home, when - in the words of one former ...

10/23/2008

Steve Coll
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
It's a familiar story, to a point. A young man from a small town leaves home to make his fortune. He's in the right place at the right time; through hard work and ...

10/15/2008

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Jack H. Jacobs
The story of the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S. award for valor in combat - is told through personal accounts of bravery and daring. The medal, dating ...

10/15/2008

Medal of Honor
Documentary Film Preview
The story of the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S. award for valor in combat - is told through personal accounts of bravery and daring. The medal, dating ...

10/9/2008

Lewis Sorley
Honor Bright: History & Origins of the West Point Honor Code & System
Ulysses S. Grant was miserable there, racking up a long list of demerits, and George Armstrong Custer finished a merry last in his class; Robert E. Lee was one of its ...

10/3/2008

2008 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award Recipient
Allan R. Millett
Allan R. Millett is the recipient of the 2008 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. In their ...

10/2/2008

Front & Center with John Callaway
Tuskegee Airmen
They were America's first black military pilots, fighting Nazis in Europe and Jim Crow at home. On this special presentation of Front & Center, John Callaway sits ...

September

9/25/2008

Andrei Cherny
The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift & America's Finest Hour
After three years of shared control over post-war Germany, tensions came to a head; the Soviet Union cut off all land and water access to Berlin, intending ...

9/17/2008

Joe Galloway and Hal Moore
We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam
It was the 1992 publication (and Vietnamese translation) of We Were Soldiers Once...and Young that allowed journalist Galloway and retired Lt. Gen. Moore to ...

9/11/2008

Noah Andre Trudeau
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea
His name is cursed in Georgia, almost a century and a half after the famed march from the smoldering ruins of Atlanta to Savannah and the sea. It went exactly ...

9/4/2008

Front & Center with John Callaway
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: At Home & Abroad
Their missions range from the deserts of Iraq to the wetlands of the United States, involving construction support in war zones and protection for our water ...

June

6/26/2008

Front & Center with John Callaway
Elizabeth Samet
In Prof. Elizabeth D. Samet's English class at West Point, cadets discuss the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Randall Jarrell, and read books ranging from the ...

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