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2011 Season
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December
12/1/2011
Stanley Weintraub
Pearl Harbor Christmas
A World at War, December 1941
Christmas trees were a dollar apiece, and Times Square was set to swing on New Year's Eve. It was a holiday season like none other — December 1941, in the midst of a world at war...
November
11/19/2011
Medal of Honor Recipients
Jack Jacobs and Allen J. Lynch
Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty
Third Edition
To celebrate the release of the third edition of
Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty
, two of the Medal of Honor recipients profiled in the book...
11/16/2011
Sir Max Hastings
Inferno
The World at War, 1939-1945
In the midst of his global narrative, Hastings focuses on events of the Second World War as they appeared to the people experiencing them...
11/3/2011
Richard S. Lowry
New Dawn
The Battles for Fallujah
Operation Phantom Fury was a seven-week counter-insurgency campaign through the streets of Fallujah — an ancient city 40 miles west of Baghdad...
11/2/2011
Amanda Foreman
A World on Fire
Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
In
A World on Fire
, Foreman takes a sweeping look at the role of the British in the American Civil War…
October
10/27/2011
Marvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb
Haunting Legacy
Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama
Saigon fell, South Vietnam collapsed, and American boots left the ground in 1975. But one survivor of that war has been involved in every American conflict since then...
10/21/2011
Carlo D'Este
2011 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award Interview
His first book,
Decision in Normandy
(1983), offered a fresh perspective on the leadership of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and the Allied landings after D-Day...
10/20/2011
Karl Marlantes
What It Is Like to Go to War
As a young lieutenant, fresh out of college, he had mere moments to figure out how to lead men through life or death situations in the highland jungle of Vietnam...
10/7/2011
Craig L. Symonds
The Battle of Midway
At 10:00 a.m. on June 4, 1942, the Axis powers were winning the Second World War. One hour later, they were not. Symonds argues that the Battle of Midway was the war's tipping point...
September
9/29/2011
Eric Greitens
The Heart and the Fist
The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
As a young man, he felt a call to service in his heart; years later, he felt a call to service with his fist, and came to realize those calls were one and the same...
9/22/2011
Scott McGaugh
Battlefield Angels
Saving Lives Under Enemy Fire
McGaugh traces the evolution of battlefield care, finding cases of remarkable courage and resourcefulness that saved lives...
9/14/2011
David Stevenson
With Our Backs to the Wall
Victory and Defeat in 1918
After years of bloody stalemate, what gave the Allies the upper hand in World War I?
9/6/2011
Senator Dick Durbin
Press Conference
Department of Veterans Affairs' Family Caregiver Program
July
7/21/2011
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Walter D. Ehlers
U.S. Army, World War II
Walter Ehlers led his unit through the beach at Normandy and eight miles inland, where they destroyed several machine-gun nests and severely weakened the German defenses...
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?
7/14/2011
Mary Weaks-Baxter, Christine Bruun, and Catherine Forslund
We Are a College at War:
Women Working for Victory in World War II
We Are a College at War
weaves together the World War II experiences of students and faculty at Rockford College...
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...
June
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...
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...
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...
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