Pritzker Military Library Presents - Season 13 (2018)

Robert Gerwarth discusses his book on the epic account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I - conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century.

David Hackett Fischer talks with the 2017 Founders Award recipient, Ed Bearss, about his career.

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Pritzker Literature Award Winners Allan Millet (2008) and Gerhard Weinberg (2009) discuss the fall of the Japanese empire following WWII.

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Frank Lavin discusses his book about his father's experience of WWII, told through personal correspondence and documents.

Bestselling author A.J. Baime tells the dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely, small-town Washington outsider had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

Hayes discusses his career and his role as Adjutant General of the Illinois National Guard.

Max Boot talks about his book about the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale and the Vietnam War.

Terrence Finnegan discusses his book, A Delicate Affair.

Historian and award-winning author Michael Robbins talks about the writing process for the book Lest We Forget: The Great War, with the book's Executive Editor and Creative Director Kenneth Clarke.

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Ann Todd discusses the career of Elizabeth "Betty" P. McIntosh, a WWII spy who practiced psych-ops.

Edward J. Marolda discusses his book on the dedication, courage, and sacrifice of Navy officers and enlisted sailors during the Vietnam War.

Thomas D. Phillips discusses his second volume on some of America's forgotten military leaders.

Elizabeth Cobb discusses her book on the Hello Girls, America's first women soldiers who helped win World War I.

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Patrick K. O'Donnell discusses his book "The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America's Unknown Soldier and WWI's Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home."

Former Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Pitts is the ninth living recipient of the United States' highest award for valor from the War in Afghanistan, receiving his medal on June 21, 2014 for extraordinary heroism in combat operations near Wanat Village, Kunar Province in July 2008. He discusses his military service with Paul Herbert.

Kenneth Davis discusses the Spanish flu pandemic in WWI that resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people around the world.

Rear Admiral Matthew Zirkle is interviewed on his time in the U.S. Navy by John Schwan.

D. M. discusses his book on Operation Downfall.

Norty and Suzie Schwartz discuss their book "Journey: Memoirs of an Air Force Chief of Staff" about General Schwartz's term as the wartime US Air Force Chief of Staff under presidents Bush and Obama.

Admiral William F. Moran discusses his service and what the U.S. Navy is doing to address issues with the service fleet.

J.D. Dickey discusses his book about General William Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea" during the Civil War.

Neal Bascomb discusses his book about the prison break of the German POW camp Holzminden in WWI.

Bob Drury discusses his book about Valley Forge.

Max Hastings discusses his new modern history of the Vietnam War.

Before George Butterworth fought in The Great War, he wrote his Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad as an expression of his love for traditional English folk songs. Ives' powerful In Flanders Fields communicates the American composer's sentiments about war, while composer and British army member Ivor Gurney's Ludlow and Teme evokes the English town of his youth. Songs by some of America's greatest Tin Pan Alley songwriters close out this afternoon of musical storytelling.

Author Ed Lengel discusses his book about the Lost Battalion in WWI.

Author Joel Bius discusses the relationship between the military and the cigarette.