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May

5/29/2008
Front & Center with John Callaway
The Politics of Defense & National Security: Where do the U.S. Presidential Candidates Stand?
As the 2008 presidential election nears, all of the major candidates have taken steps to burnish their credentials on national security in the eyes of the electorate ...
June

6/12/2008
R. Alan King
An American Soldier's Battle for Heart & Minds in Iraq
While serving as a senior civil-military advisor in Baghdad, U.S. Army Lt. Col. R. Alan King disarmed several potentially dangerous situations with ...

6/24/2008
Martha Raddatz
The Long Road Home: A Story of War & Family
Thousands of miles apart, the American soldiers serving in Baghdad and their families in Fort Hood, Texas awoke to what promised to be an ordinary...

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 ...
September

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 ...

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 ...

9/17/2008
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 ...

9/25/2008
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 ...
October

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 ...
November

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

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 ...
October

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 ...

10/9/2008
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 ...

10/2/2008
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 ...
November

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
December

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 ...
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