2012 Season

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December

12/12/2012
Mark Bowden
The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
A portrait of one of the most high-profile special forces operations ever undertaken, by the author of Black Hawk Down...

12/7/2012
Amy S. Greenberg
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
Amy S. Greenberg brings to life the story of the U.S.-Mexican War...

12/4/2012
Citizen Soldier
Recovering Lake Michigan’s Lost World War II Aircraft
During World War II, the U.S. Navy pilots qualified for aircraft carrier operations on the waves of Lake Michigan...

November

11/15/2012
Patrick O'Donnell
Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe
Patrick O'Donnell returns to the Library for the story of Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe

11/14/2012
Citizen Soldier
Colonel McCormick and the Battle of Cantigny
The story of Colonel McCormick and the Battle of Cantigny...

October

10/26/2012
Rick Atkinson and Sir Max Hastings
Citizen Soldier
The Embedded Journalist and Military History
Two acclaimed journalists and historians, Rick Atkinson and Sir Max Hastings, discuss the role of the embedded journalist in military history...


10/25/2012
Dr. Justus Doenecke, Dr. James R. Reckner, and Dr. Allan R. Millett
Theodore Roosevelt and the Military
Three distinguished historians and scholars examine Theodore Roosevelt and the American Military...


10/18/2012
Benjamin Patton
Growing Up Patton
Reflections on Heroes, History and Family Wisdom
The grandson of WWII general George S. Patton Jr. offers a rare and intimate look into the life of a legendary man...


10/4/2012
Dan Hampton
Viper Pilot
A Memoir of Air Combat
From the most legendary U.S. Fighter Pilot since Vietnam...


10/3/2012
Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Into the Fire
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
From the first living Marine in three decades to be awarded the Medal of Honor comes Into the Fire...

September

9/28/2012
James McPherson and James Cornelius
Citizen Soldier:
150 Years After the Emancipation Proclamation
The little-known stories of the naval campaigns of the Civil War...


9/20/2012
Bruce Gamble
Swashbucklers and Black Sheep
A Pictoral History of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II
A history of the most famous Marine Corps fighting squadron in World War II...

August

8/21/2012
Mike Dowling
Sergeant Rex
The Unbreakable Bond Between a Marine and His Military Working Dog
Marine Corps military K9 teams had not been sent to the front lines of combat since Vietnam...


8/17/2012
Ambassador David Jacobson, Ambassador Gary Doer, Commodore Darren Hawco, RADM Gregory M. Nosal, RADM Michael N. Parks
Ties that Bind
Canada/U.S. International Security Cooperation
Diplomatic relations between the United States and Canada impact the national security and economies of both nations...


8/16/2012
RADM Gregory M. Nosal, RADM Joseph Callo, USN (Ret.), Dr. William Thiesen, Ph.D., Donald R. Hickey, SLt(N) Gordon Laco
Keeping the Sea Free for More Than 200 Years
Voices of the Heroes of the Naval War of 1812
The Naval battles of the War of 1812 provide lessons 200 years later...

June

6/21/2012
Antony Beevor
The Second World War
A comprehensive history of World War II through the eyes of its participants...


6/19/2012
Award Announcement
2012 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing
The 2012 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing goes to Sir Max Hastings, an accomplished journalist, writer, historian and editor...

6/13/2012
Anthony Swofford
Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir
A new memoir from the author of Jarhead...

May

5/17/2012
Pritzker Military Library and National Strategy Forum
NATO Experts - NATO Protesters Debate
Social Responsibility and National Security: Towards a New NATO


5/11/2012
Rachel Cox
Into Dust and Fire
Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazi Army
Until the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the United States was reluctant to enter the fray of World War II...

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