Pritzker Military Library

January

1/10/2008

James Campbell
The Ghost Mountain Boys
They marched through dense, tropical jungles and over a towering mountain peak without maps. The air was choked with humidity, the swamps were full of ...

1/17/2008

Forrest Bryant Johnson
Phantom Warrior
He was too weak to farm, so he was sent out into the swamps of Georgia with a sling-shot, told to bring back whatever he could for the family to eat. Years later, ...

1/24/2008

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Hershel "Woody" Williams
Five foot six was too short for the Marines in the fall of 1942, and barely tall enough a few months later; on the island of Iwo Jima, with the American forces taking ...

1/31/2008

Front & Center with John Callaway
The War on Terror: Progress or Regression?
As we approach the 5th anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, where do America and her allies stand in the "Long War" in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world...

February

2/7/2008

Heidi Squier Kraft
Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned In A Combat Hospital
Tales of the fearsome camel spider are told throughout Iraq. In truth, it is about the size of a human hand, and it is quite fast. It runs at five miles an hour, ...

2/13/2008

Steve Coonts
A Conversation with Stephen Coonts
It is a riveting tale of aerial combat that unfolds at supersonic speed, but Stephen Coonts' best-selling novel Flight of the Intruder was actually a long ...

2/21/2008

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Brain M. Thacker
One soldier had to stay behind. The small observation team at Fire Base 6 was under heavy fire and vastly outnumbered, and two helicopters were shot down ...

2/28/2008

Front & Center with John Callaway
High Schools, Military Academies & JROTC: On Target, or Off the Mark?
What role should the US military have in over 3200 high schools across the United States? How does the City of Chicago maintain and support the largest and ...

March

3/6/2008

James Megellas
All The Way To Berlin
We return to the men of the 82nd Airborne Division in late September 1944, after the capture of the bridge at Nijmegen, Holland - a battle whose story one CBS ...

3/9/2008

Civil War Saturday
Steve Mayeux
Steven Mayeux's Earthen Walls, Iron Men takes a footnote of history and imbues it with a rich sense of human drama. Fort DeRussy was the key to the ...

3/9/2008

Civil War Saturday
Marc Leepson
Marc Leepson is a journalist, historian and the author of six books. A former staff writer for Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C., he has written for ...

3/13/2008

James McPherson
Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-In-Chief
On one side of the Civil War stood Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy: a graduate of West Point, seasoned by command in the Mexican War and four ...

3/20/2008

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
James E. Livingston
In one ferocious battle after another, without a moment's rest between the defense of a key bridge and an assault on an enemy-held village, Echo Company ...

3/27/2008

Front & Center with John Callaway
Israel: A Strategic Review
With the Iraq war a key focal point in the presidential primaries, Israel garners few headlines. Yet the strategic interests of this long-time American partner are critical ...

3/31/2008

Howard Reich
Prisoner of Her Past - Interview by Rick Kogan
Sonia Reich believes that she is being hunted. Her food is rancid and hair ridden with lice; her doctors are trying to poison her, and someone has painted a yellow Star ...

April

4/9/2008

Bruce Chadwick
1858
In 1858, fate had yet to pay its call on them. Abraham Lincoln was giving galvanizing speeches across Illinois ... and losing an election. Jefferson Davis was ...

4/10/2008

100 Episodes
Honoring The Citizen Soldier
We've crossed the Delaware with General Washington, stood at Gettysburg beside President Lincoln, and seen the ash of Iwo Jima through the eyes of a young man ...

4/17/2008

Burke O'Gorman
End Of Watch
Constable James Quinn was the first. He had arrested a suspected thief in the Sands, a rough-and-tumble Irish neighborhood on the lakefront, but allowed his ...

4/22/2008

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Bruce P. Crandall
He is the most recent living recipient of America's highest award for military valor. In a ceremony at the White House in 2007, more than 41 years after his ...

4/24/2008

Front & Center with John Callaway
The Two Koreas: What is the Way Forward?
North Korea recently threatened to turn South Korea into a "sea of fire", and reduce its neighbor to "ashes". After the apparent progress of last fall's six-nation ...