Pritzker Military Library

February

Repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell:<br/>A Conversation with One Marine

2/17/2011

Citizen Soldier
Repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell:
A Conversation with One Marine
A recent poll by ABC News shows that 78% of those polled agree with the recent decision to repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell". That's up 20% from a survey...

March

<em>Neptune's Inferno:<br />The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal</em>

3/2/2011

James D. Hornfischer
Neptune's Inferno:
The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
James Hornfischer is also the author of Ship of Ghosts and The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award. When he's not writing...

<em>The Wrong War:<br />Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan</em>

3/9/2011

Bing West
The Wrong War:
Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan
Bing West, a Marine combat veteran, served as an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration. A frequent contributor to...

3/24/2011

Howard Reich
Prisoner of Her Past:
On Thursday, March 24, the Pritzker Military Library hosted a screening of Prisoner of Her Past, a documentary from Chicago's Kartemquin Films...

April

<em>Noble Warrior:<br />The Life and Times of Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston, USMC (Ret.) Medal of Honor</em>

4/7/2011

James E. Livingston
Noble Warrior:
The Life and Times of Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston, USMC (Ret.) Medal of Honor
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...

<em>Brothers, Rivals, Victors:<br /> Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe</em>

4/13/2011

Jonathan W. Jordan
Brothers, Rivals, Victors:
Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe
Jonathan W. Jordan is the author of the award-winning book Lone Star Navy: Texas, the Fight for the Gulf of Mexico, and the Shaping of the American West...

4/15/2011

Mayor Richard M. Daley Press Conference

Chicago's mayor salutes new library, receives lifetime membership...

2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award Lecture<br /><em>The U.S. Army in World War II: Ten Things to Know</em>

4/28/2011

Rick Atkinson
2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award Lecture
The U.S. Army in World War II: Ten Things to Know
From the award-winning author of An Army at Dawn and The Day of Battle comes a new look at the U.S. Army in World War II...

4/30/2011

Anne Nivat
Interview with Ed Tracy
For her first book, Nivat disguised herself as a Chechen woman and traveled to that war-torn region despite a Russian ban on journalists...

May

<em>Last Men Out:<br /> The True Story of America's Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam</em>

5/10/2011

Tom Clavin
Last Men Out:
The True Story of America's Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam
In the final hours of the Vietnam War, eleven Marines had a difficult choice to make...

<em>Decisive Battles:<br/>From Yorktown to Operation Desert Storm</em>

5/12/2011

Jonathon Riley
Decisive Battles:
From Yorktown to Operation Desert Storm
In Decisive Battles, Riley draws on his personal experience as a soldier and historian to explore the definitive battles of the modern era...

5/19/2011

Vietnam War Panel
Members of the 2011 Welcome Home Parade Committee
Topics include reflections on the 1986 Welcome Home Parade and its significance, as well as the participants’ feeling about coming home – before and after the parade...

<em>The Civil War of 1812:<br/>American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies</em>

5/26/2011

Alan Taylor
The Civil War of 1812:
American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
The Civil War of 1812 sheds light on the tangled origins of the relationship between the United States and Canada. In a world of double identities, slippery allegiances, and porous boundaries...

June

<em>WAR</em><br/>with special screening of<br /><em>Restrepo</em>

6/11/2011

Sebastian Junger
WAR
with special screening of
Restrepo
For his book WAR and film Restrepo, Sebastian Junger spent several months embedded with the Second Platoon of the 173rd Airborne Brigade during their deployment to the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan...

6/14/2011

Maj. Gen. John F. Campbell, USA and Mrs. Ann Campbell
Interview with Ed Tracy
In May, the 101st Airborne Division completed its year-long rotation in Afghanistan. The Screaming Eagles formed the backbone of Joint Task Force 101...

<em>It Happened on the Way to War:<br/>A Marine's Path to Peace</em>

6/14/2011

Rye Barcott
It Happened on the Way to War:
A Marine's Path to Peace
In 2000, Barcott spent part of the summer living in ten-by-ten-foot shacks in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He was a twenty-year-old college student heading into the Marines...

6/21/2011

Live Webcast Announcement
2011 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing
The 2011 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing goes to Carlo D'Este, author of a series of major works on World War II...

<em>Hitler in the Crosshairs:<br/>A GI's Story of Courage and Faith</em>

6/30/2011

John Woodbridge and Maurice Possley
Hitler in the Crosshairs:
A GI's Story of Courage and Faith
On April 29, 1945, a young American soldier named Ira “Teen” Palm led his small group of men up two flights of stairs to find out whether Hitler was home...

July

<em>America Aflame:<br/>How the Civil War Created a Nation</em>

7/7/2011

David Goldfield
America Aflame:
How the Civil War Created a Nation
To David Goldfield, the course of the Civil War was set long before the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter; it was decades earlier, with the Second Great Awakening...

<em>Mollie's War:<br />The Letters of a World War II WAC in Europe</em>

7/14/2011

Cyndee Schaffer
Mollie's War:
The Letters of a World War II WAC in Europe
Why did an average American woman become a WAC during World War II and place herself in peril?