Last Men Out: The True Story of America's Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam
Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire to life with memorable characters, plotlines, and legacies.
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 talks, what does this return to nuclear rhetoric mean? The North is heavily dependent on China for food and fuel, while the South is one of America's strongest allies. John Callaway explores the Two Koreas with a panel including Prof. Bruce Cummings, Department Chair and specialist in Modern Korean History, University of Chicago; and Brig. Gen. Joe E. Ramirez Jr., Assistant Division Commander, 2nd US Infantry Division, South Korea.
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 to the future of stability in the Middle East. How do the goals and ambitions of Israel mesh with U.S. policy and what are the main points of strategic difference? Join John Callaway and a panel including Barukh Binah, Consul General of Israel in Chicago, Raja Kamal from the University of Chicago, and Saeed Khan, Adjunct Professor in Islamic Studies at the University of Detroit-Mercy, for an exploration of "Israel: A Strategic Review".
The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare
Front & Center with John Callaway: Coming Home: The Veteran's Story
Ed Tracy interviews Vietnam War medevac helicopter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient Patrick H. Brady.
Fallujah Redux: The Anbar Awakening and the Struggle with Al-Qaeda
Front & Center wtih John Callaway: One on One with Charles Moskos
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace
Preservationist Steven M. Mayeux discusses his new Civil War book, "Earthen Walls, Iron Men: Fort DeRussy, Louisiana, and the Defense of the Red River".
In this exciting program Sir Max Hastings gives the audience a sneak peak into his new book, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War.
Chicago History Museum: 150th Anniversary

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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944 - 1945
In Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, Swofford describes his search for identity, meaning, and reconciliation with his dying father in the years after he returned from serving as a sniper in the Marines.
Front & Center with John Callaway: Congratulations, You Won... What Now?
For this very special episode of Front & Center, John Callaway sat down with retired 3-star general Hal Moore and reporter Joe Galloway, author of We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.
Front & Center with John Callaway: Full Reckoning: Life After Combat
Author Tom Wheeler discusses his new book, "Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War".

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Discussing the operational challenges of urban warfare are Major General Yaacob Ayish, Israeli Defense and Armed Forces Attaché to the U.S. and Canada, and Major General Richard T. Devereaux U.S. Air Force , Former Director of Operational Planning, Policy, and Strategy - Headquarters, USAF. The program will be moderated by Dr. John Allen Williams, professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago.
Presented in partnership with the Consulate General of France in Chicago—and in celebration of the PMML's acquisition of 100 French language books about WWI — French philosopher Marc Crépon discusses his work with DePaul University’s Michael Naas, philosophy professor and chair. The lecture will explore the surge in time of war of a “culture of fear” and a “culture of the enemy” that are the first and the most formidable of the trials that must be surmounted by those who want not only to make the voice of peace heard, but to give it a chance in the future.
Join John Callaway and his panelists Robert A. Pape, Thomas R. Mockaitis, and Dr. David M. Terman as they explore and debate the history, psychology, impact and military implications of the suicide bomber.
Join us for a thought-provoking evening with Tribune Film Critic Michael Wilmington and Daily Herald Critic Dann Gire as they discuss films of the Civil War at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Brian M. Thacker
Join John Callaway and his panel of experts - Cherif Bassiouni, Joseph A. Morris, and William Howell - as they explore the military and political implications of America's policy in Iraq and the Middle East.
Bryan Anderson enlisted in the Army in April 2001. He served two tours of duty in Iraq and attained the rank of Sergeant in the Military Police. In his inspiring memoir, Bryan shares his infectious love for life that touches anyone who’s faced hardship. Anyone, in any circumstance, can overcome the toughest challenges, by not just surviving, but thriving. No Turning Back is a testament to pure hard work, perseverance, and hope for a better life—no matter what shape it takes.
Steve Coll discusses his new book, "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century".
The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago's Civil War Connections
Renowned biographer Carlo D'Este, a retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, talks with Chicago History Museum President Gary Johnson about what it means to be a military historian. Sponsored by Plante Moran and presented as part of ON WAR 2014.
As a young man, Eric Greitens 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.
Civil War hero General Ulysses S. Grant has been unfairly maligned because of the bloody 1864 campaigns he conducted against Robert E. Lee to secure final victory for the Union. A Victor, Not A Butcher takes you into those decisive campaigns to prove that far from being a crude butcher Grant’s casualty rates actually compared favorably with those of other Civil War generals. Grant was an inspired military leader with a genius for issuing lucid orders, maneuvering his troops adroitly, and making excellent use of his staff. His perseverance, decisiveness, moral courage, and political acumen place him among the greatest generals of the Civil War—indeed, of all military history.
Antony Beevor offers a comprehensive view of World War II, from the viewpoint of ordinary people thrust into an international conflict that goes much deeper than most ever learn about.
Ed Tracy interviews Civil War historian James M. McPherson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for "Battle Cry of Freedom" and the first Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
Ed Tracy interviews Vietnam War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Roger H. C. Donlon.
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Front & Center with John Callaway: 36 Days on Iwo Jima
Medal of Honor recipient Allen J. Lynch and highly decorated veterans Jason Redman and Ryan Ahern share their experiences in combat and at home in this incisive panel discussion moderated by Kenneth Clarke on what it means to be a military hero. Presented in partnership with the Chicago Public Library's One Book, One Chicago program.
After a distinguished 28-year career in the U.S. Army, retired Brigadier General Anthony J. Tata has turned from the sword to the pen. The first in a new series of novels featuring Native American and dishonorably discharged U.S. Army Captain Chayton "Jake" Mahegan, Foreign and Domestic is an exciting, realistic thriller set against the backdrop of the War in Afghanistan.
In the summer of 1932, 45,000 veterans of World War I marched peacefully on Washington, D.C. -- their two month rally to demand immediate early payment of a cash bonus promised to them in 1924 for their military service.
America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation
John Callaway talks to Douglas Macgregor, Sean Naylor and Lewis Sorley about writing on war in the 21st Century.
In 2009, with piracy on the rise and fast becoming a serious global security issue, Rear Adm. Terry McKnight took command of CTF 151, the multinational task force on patrol in the Gulf of Aden.
Rufus Phillips discusses his new book, "Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned".
Operation Phantom Fury was a seven-week counter-insurgency campaign through the streets of Fallujah — an ancient city 40 miles west of Baghdad. The joint U.S., Iraqi, and British offensive is described as some of the heaviest urban combat since the 1968 Battle of Hue City in Vietnam. In New Dawn, Richard S. Lowry recounts the story of how coalition forces overcame the insurgent stronghold — drawing from the recollections of over 200 soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines.
Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Alfred V. Rascon about his life and service with the U.S. Army in Vietnam.
Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed

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British subjects volunteered by the thousands to pick sides and take up arms in the American Civil War — some took up arms for the Union, and others for the Confederacy. Though missing from many portrayals of the war, the British played an important role in this key moment in American history.
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? Has "the surge" brought progress, as claimed by the military? Can the Iraqi leadership stabilize the country? How will the revised intelligence assessment affect our course with Iran and its nuclear program? Afghanistan is coping with a resurgent Taliban, and Pakistan is facing a volatile domestic situation. How do they play into the mix?
Symposium - Urban Warfare: Legal Challenges
Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Thomas R. Norris about his life and service with the U.S. Navy in Vietnam.
Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northwestern University, Charles Moskos was a leading thinker on military issues. The author of the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy, his books include The Military - More Than Just a Job?, A Call to Civic Service, The New Conscientious Objection, Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way, and The Postmodern Military.
Facing the Future: Writing on War in the 21st Century
Gregory Freeman talks about his book, "Troubled Water: Race, Mutiny and Bravery on the USS Kitty Hawk".
First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America's Most Elite Unit
Front & Center with John Callaway: The U-505 Submarine Story
Front & Center with John Callaway: Women in the U.S. Military: A Changing Role?
Join John Callaway and a panel including Major General Randal Thomas, Adjutant General of the Illinois National Guard, Colonel Jill Morgenthaler , and journalist Kirsten Scharnberg as they evaluate the health and readiness of today's National Guard.
Tom Ricks talks about his new book, "The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008".
Front & Center with John Callaway: Sun-Times Wounded Warriors Series Prompts Action
Joyce Hoffmann discusses her new book, "On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam".
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Bruce P. Crandall
Ed Tracy hosts a special retrospective for the Pritzker Military Library's 200th television episode.
Gillum Ferguson explores the crucial role of Illinois in the War of 1812.
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: James E. Livingston
James L. Nelson discusses his new book, "George Washington's Secret Navy: How the American Revolution Went to Sea".
Ed Tracy interviews Korean War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Ronald E. Rosser.
Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient John F. Baker, U.S. Army, Vietnam.
James Carl Nelson talks about his new book, "The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War".
Journalists Frank Schaeffer and Kathy Roth-Douquet discuss their new book, "AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service - and How It Hurts Our Country".
Author Steve Huntley discusses his new book, written with Truman K. Gibson Jr., "Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America".

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Lewis Sorley discusses his new book, "Honor Bright: History and Origins of the West Point Honor Code and System".
Noah Andre Trudeau discusses his new Civil War history, "Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea".
Mollie's War: The Letters of a World War II WAC in Europe
President Barack Obama has laid out a bold domestic agenda to address the economy and other challenges at home, but what kind of impact is he looking to make overseas? Can Obama and his national security team effectively transform America's foreign affairs, or will volatile situations like the recent outbreak of violence in the Gaza Strip set the agenda for them? Join John Callaway and his panel of experts as they take stock of the First 100 Days of the Obama Administration on Front & Center.

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Author Mark Bowden discusses his new book, "Guests of the Ayatollah".
Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor
Howard Reich describes his mother's late-onset post-traumatic stress disorder, brought on by her experiences as a nine year old Holocaust survivor in Poland.
They were America's first black military pilots, fighting Nazis in Europe and Jim Crow at home. On this special presentation of Front & Center, John Callaway sits down with Robert Martin, Dr. Quentin P. Smith, and Shelby Westbrook, three of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen.
Battlefield historian Edwin Bearss discusses his new book, "Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War".
Join John Callaway and his panel of experts to explore the real cost of the war on terror and its implications for the future.
Ed Tracy interviews Allan R. Millett, recipient of the 2008 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
Sgt. Maj. Battaglia visits the Library to address active duty military from all branches on the issues facing today's Armed Forces personnel.
Author Mark DePue discusses his new book, "Patrolling Baghdad: A Military Police Company and the War in Iraq".
Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Facade of American Empire, 1898–2001 explores the theory that the masculinity of those who serve in the American military is full of contradictions.
Lt. Col. Dan Hampton, one of the most decorated F-16 fighter pilots shares his exhilarating story in VIPER PILOT: A Memoir of Air Combat. Hampton details his experience in the elite Wild Weasels, whose mission to take out surface-to-air missile sites as the first planes sent into a conflict is recognized as the most dangerous in modern air combat—far more demanding than air-to-air combat with enemy aircraft.
The most hard-fought campaign since the invasion of Iraq by coalition forces in April 2003, the battle for Fallujah seems here to embody most every facet of the American military experience in that country--inordinate courage by the fighting men and their immediate superiors, indecision and contradiction by U.S. leaders from the top down, a disconnect between military will to succeed in Iraq and a lack of dollars and troops to support it, and a treacherous relationship between Fallujans and those Americans who would do everything to "help" them.

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Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Walter J. Marm about his life and service with the U.S. Army in Vietnam.
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This panel featured four experts on the importance of U.S.-Canadian relations in the national security of both nations.
A Handful of Bullets: How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace
Calculated Risk: The Extraordinary Life of Jimmy Doolittle
Jonna Doolittle Hoppes discusses her new book, "Calculated Risk: The Extraordinary Life of Jimmy Doolittle - Aviation Pioneer and World War II Hero".
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Sammy Davis
In August 1943, on the eve of the Allied invasion of Italy, Allied bombs threatened Michelangelo's David and nearly destroyed Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. This is the blockbuster story of the race to save the world's greatest masterpieces by the best-selling author of The Monuments Men.
Jason Healey presents a fascinating overview of military history in cyberspace.
Sir Max Hastings discusses his book, "Winston's War: Churchill 1940 - 1945".
Maj. Gen. John F. Campbell, USA and Mrs. Ann Campbell
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. As a veteran, he has had more than four decades to figure out how to describe that experience.
Author Ian W. Toll discusses his new book, "Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy".
Moderated by Dr. John Allen Williams, who joins one of America's foremost WWII scholars, Gerhard Weinberg, for an in-depth discussion on the major players in WWII, and the effect each had on the war that changed the world.
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.
A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey
Renowned combat historian and best-selling author Patrick K. O’Donnell returns to the Pritzker Military Museum & Library for a discussion of his newest book.
Edward M. Coffman visited the library to talk about his new book The Regulars : The American Army, 1898-1941.
Michael and Elizabeth Norman discuss their new book, "Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath".
After years of bloody stalemate, what gave the Allies the upper hand in World War I? And why, after a clear victory for the Allies, would the defeated Germans rise again to threaten Europe within a matter of years?
Becca Heller, Erik Malmstrom, Khalilullah Farshad Yewazi, Brigadier General Craig E. Bennett
Front & Center with John Callaway: Iraq in Transition: What Next?
Front & Center with John Callaway: Gen. Tony Zinni
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Michael Thornton & Thomas Norris
During the four years General Creighton W. Abrams was commander in Vietnam, he and his staff made more than 455 tape recordings of briefings and meetings. In 1994, with government approval, Lewis Sorley began transcribing and analyzing the tapes. Sorley's laborious, time-consuming effort has produced a picture of the senior U.S. commander in Vietnam and his associates working to prosecute a complex and challenging military campaign in an equally complex and difficult political context.
Author Colin Beavan discusses his new book, "Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War".
James Bradley talks about his new book, "The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War".
Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed
Stuart Goldman discusses the little-known conflict that resulted in a victory for the Soviet Union's Red Army and helped shape the outcome of World War II. The name of the book is Nomonhan, 1939.
Louis Johnson was FDR's Assistant Secretary of War and the architect of the industrial mobilization plans that put the nation on a war footing prior to its entry into World War II.
Linda Robinson discusses her new book, "Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq".
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Robert L. Howard
The Medal of Honor is America's highest military award for valor in combat against an enemy force. It is reserved for those moments after the outcome has already been determined, after any observer would have considered the battle lost. The Medal of Honor is earned by ordinary men who refused to accept that history was already written. And in a moment of supreme courage, those men became extraordinary. Join us as we Commit to Courage with a look back at some of the finest moments from the first five years of Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy.
Author Clark Kent Ervin discusses his new book, "Open Target: Where America is Vulnerable to Attack" and his first-hand experiences as former Department of Homeland Security Inspector General.

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Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda
Jon Meacham visited the library to talk about his new book Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship .
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Walter D. Ehlers
Ed Tracy interviews retired Navy aviator and Medal of Honor recipient Thomas J. Hudner, Jr.
In this highly original work, Ms. Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius as he rises from the obscurity of a one-term congressman/prairie lawyer to become president and prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation.
Front & Center with John Callaway: Covering the U.S. Military: The Journalist's Challenge
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
Author and West Point English Professor Elizabeth D. Samet discusses her new book, "Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point".

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The Secrets of Mary Bowser , offers insights into the amazing, long-forgotten role one African American woman played in the war that ended slavery.
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Ecverything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Military History, Military Affairs and Public Policy
Citizen Soldier: Repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell: A Conversation With One Marine
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Michael Thornton
Ed Tracy hosts a special retrospective for the Pritzker Military Library's 100th television episode.
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Patrick H. Brady
Front & Center with John Callaway: The Turning Point
They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967
John Ross discusses the life of WWI ace pilot Eddie Rickenbacker in his new book, "Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed."
Gerhard Weinberg delivers a lecture entitled "New Boundaries for the World: The Post-War Visions of Eight World War II Leaders".
Front & Center with John Callaway: The Cost of War: The Family Perspective
Blowtorch: Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War Strategy by Frank Leith Jones, is the first biography ever written about the Cold War national security policy and strategy adviser to three presidents
Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Jon R. Cavaiani about his life and service with the U.S. Army in Vietnam.
Lucinda Franks discusses her new book, "My Father's Secret War: A Memoir".
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Nick Del Calzo, Photographer
David Bellavia talks about his book, "House to House: An Epic Memoir of War".
Atkinson is the recipient of the 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. He is currently at work on the third volume of his trilogy about the American role in the liberation of Europe in World War II.
Military History Symposium: Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Andrew Meier discusses his new book, "The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service".
Robert C. Doyle talks about his new book, "The Enemy in Our Hands: America's Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror".
Quang X. Pham's A Sense of Duty, the first book written by a former Vietnamese refugee who became a U.S. Marine, is an affecting memoir about fate, hope, and the aftermath of the most divisive war America has fought. It is both a heartfelt salute to the spirit of America and a recounting of a son's reunion with his long absent father, himself a devoted officer who saw combat firsthand.
Jason Redman, a decorated U.S. Navy SEAL lieutenant who served in Colombia, Peru, Afghanistan, and Iraq, discusses his book "The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader."
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Leo K. Thorsness

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My Share of the Task , is the revealing memoir of General Stanley McChrystal, former commander of the International Security Assistance Force and commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Following McChrystal from his first days as a West Point plebe to his last days as a four-star general, My Share of the Task is a frank exploration of an extraordinary military career.
Front & Center with John Callaway: High Schools, Military Academies, and JROTC
Artist Steve Mumford describes his watercolors and sketches of everyday life among U.S. soldiers and Iraqi citizens, "Baghdad Journal: An Artist in Occupied Iraq".
Americans often think of their nation's history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood both as necessary to defend those values and as exceptions to the rule of peaceful progress. In The Dominion of War, historians Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton boldly reinterpret the development of the United States, arguing instead that war has played a leading role in shaping North America from the sixteenth century to the present.
H.W. Brands talks about his new book, "American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism 1865 - 1900".
Keenly foreseeing America’s role as the world power of the 20th century, observing the competition between Great Britain and Germany to be the nation to dominate the seas with the world’s largest and most powerful navy, and very much aware of the expansionary determination of the Japanese Empire and its military strength to support this goal, President Roosevelt crafted a foreign policy to protect America and her interests. The panel will explore the famous Great White Fleet, Roosevelt's reformation of the U.S. Army, and the American build up to World War I.
A leadership book that illustrates the unique impact of Admiral Hyman Rickover's management techniques, Rear Adm. Dave Oliver's Against the Tide draws upon a wealth of untold stories to show how one man changed American and Navy culture while altering the course of history.
Swashbucklers and Black Sheep is the first illustrated history of WWII's Black Sheep squadron, from their formation and first two combat tours as the Swashbucklers to the arrival of their legendary second commander Greg "Pappy" Boyington, after which they became the Black Sheep.
Ed Tracy interviews Ron Werneth about his book, "Beyond Pearl Harbor: The Untold Stories of Japan's Naval Airmen".
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: George 'Bud' Day
With his book "Desperate Engagement", Civil War historian Marc Leepson traces the complex interplay of possibilities and personalities before, during and after the Battle of Monocacy in 1864 - and how unforeseen events can change the course of history.
Christmas trees were a dollar apiece, and Times Square was set to swing on New Year's Eve. It would be a holiday season like none other in the nation's history — December 1941, in the midst of a world at war.
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Hershel 'Woody' Williams
What state and city agencies have developed strategies for dealing with the post 9/11 reality? How is our metropolitan area coordinating with the federal Department of Homeland Security and how are we dealing with the additional cost of such preparations. John Callaway and his panel explore these issues on this edition of Front & Center.
Novelist and historian Winston Groom joins Ed Tracy for an interview on his career and recent books.
H.W. Brands talks about his new book, "Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt".
Front & Center with John Callaway: Suicide Bombing

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On the 11th anniversary of the founding of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library, Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans Dan Green and Brig. Gen. Bill Mullen discuss their new book, Fallujah Redux—a comprehensive account of the turning of Fallujah away from the al-Qaeda insurgency in 2007. Sponsored by the U.S. Naval Institute.
Author Jerry Crimmins discusses his new book about early Chicago history, "Fort Dearborn".
Ed Tracy interviews Joe Galloway and Hal Moore about "We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam", the sequel to their best-selling Vietnam War memoir "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young".
Commemorating the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Normandy, this compilation features excerpts from past PMML lectures and interviews by distinguished historians, authors, and servicemen. Through their works and stories of service, each of the featured speakers contributes a piece of the story of Normandy.
It took only a court order in Great Britain, followed by peaceful protests within the rest of the Empire. In Russia, the conflict was largely confined to conservative and liberal nobility. So why did it take a civil war to end human bondage in America?
Professor Christopher Lynch joins us for an examination of famed Italian historian and politician Niccolò Machiavelli's views on war.
Bruce Gamble talks about his new book, "Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942 - April 1943".
Renowned Civil War historian and 2007 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award recipient James M. McPherson presents a lecture based on his forthcoming book, "Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief".
A memoir of leadership and life-lessons, The Accidental Admiral offers a wealth of Stavridis' insights on management, motivation, strategic communications, planning, and the convergence of threats that will confront the United States and its allies in the near future.
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Ed Tracy interviews Archie Brown about his new book, "The Rise and Fall of Communism".
One of the finest WWII naval action narratives in recent years, this book follows in the footsteps of Flags of Our Fathers, creating a microcosm of the war's American Navy destroyers.
As recent history has shown, economic turmoil can have unexpected consequences. While democracy in the United States narrowly emerged unscathed from the Great Depression, a similar crisis in Germany allowed the National Socialists to rise from a minority party to political dominance. What potentially dangerous political shifts await in today's international landscape? And with a financial crisis of our own, can the United States afford to stay ahead of the situation on defense and intelligence? Join John Callaway and his panel of experts for a look at the Global Economic Crisis on Front & Center.
Join John Callaway for a discussion featuring General Anthony Zinni, Benjamin Page and Charles Glaser on Zinni's new book, "The Battle For Peace".
Front & Center with John Callaway: The War of Law
Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned at a Combat Hospital

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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
The Koreas in the Inter-War Years: 1945-1950
Since World War II, Americans have been the world's true revolutionaries, expanding the frontiers of human liberty by fighting and winning the cold war. But now that we're fighting the much more complicated war on terror, many observers wonder if our glory days are behind us.
Authors Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully discuss their new book, "Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway".
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, and he sought to better understand ethnic violence — something he knew he was likely to encounter in uniform. Barcott learned Swahili and listened to young people talk about how they survived amidst poverty he had never imagined. He also stumbled into friendship with a widowed nurse, Tabitha Atieno Festo, and a tough community organizer, Salim Mohamed.
The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
Keeping the Sea Free for More Than 200 Years: Voices of the Heroes of the Naval War of 1812
Carlo D'Este discusses his new book, "Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945".
Front & Center with John Callaway: What Really Happened at No Gun Ri?
The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America 1500-2000
Author John Ferling discusses his new book on George Washington and the American Revolution, "Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence".
Presented in partnership with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, retired four-star General Anthony Zinni discusses with Chicago Council President and former NATO ambassador Ivo Daalder his new book, lessons learned about America's military operations, and what is needed for future success.
David Kilcullen talks about his new book, "The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One".
Glenna Whitley discusses her book , Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History.
What impact is blogging having on the flow of information in the military? Join John Callaway and his guests, Matthew Currier Burden, Paul Rand, and Paul Swiergosz as they explore this fast-growing phenomenon.
When Germany launched its blitzkrieg invasion of France in 1940, it forever changed the way the world waged war. Although the Wehrmacht ultimately succumbed to superior Allied firepower in a two-front war, its stunning operational achievement left a lasting impression on military commanders throughout the world, even if their own operations were rarely executed as effectively.
Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston about his life and experiences with the U.S. Marines in Vietnam.
Since its birth in 1776, the United States has always been a maritime nation, which means that unobstructed access to and free use of the world’s oceans are essential to our national welfare and prosperity. That’s what the United States went to war in 1812 to defend, and that is what the United States Navy has been protecting ever since.
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The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden is a gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. With access to key sources, Bowden takes us inside the rooms where decisions were made and on the ground where the action unfolded.
War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today
Noted musician, composer, music teacher, and writer Gerard McBurney, of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, discusses the works of various composers and their influences during the early years of the Second World War.
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Front & Center with John Callaway: The First 100 Days
Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese

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Alex Kershaw discusses his new book about the U.S. Navy and the Silent Service during World War II, "Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew".
Jonathan Brent discusses his new book, "Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia".
In this program Paul Herbert, Executive Director of the First Division Museum at Cantigny park, sits down with military historian Allan Millett for an exclusive interview.
Author Thomas Ricks discusses his new book, "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq".
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Deacon Frye tries to help church elder Rolly Forbes find out if a waitress likes him or not, but Frye decides to make a date with her himself, and gets trapped in her house when her husband comes home.

Bob Drury discusses his new book The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend in which he "restores Sioux chief Red Cloud to his rightful place in American history."
Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Wesley L. Fox.
Why did an average American woman become a WAC during World War II and place herself in peril? Authors Cyndee Schaffer and Mollie Weinstein Schaffer answer this question and more in the book, Mollie’s War, a story weaved around the collection of letters that Mollie wrote home to her family during WWII from her assignments in Europe along with historical commentary concurrent with the letters.
Richard Bessel discusses his new book, "Germany 1945: From War to Peace".
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
Army veteran Cole C. Kingseed discusses his new book, "Old Glory Stories: American Combat Leadership in World War II".
Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama
Hugh Ambrose talks about his companion volume to HBO's miniseries "The Pacific".
Author Patrick K. O'Donnell discusses his new book, "We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah".
In the final hours of the Vietnam War, eleven Marines had a difficult choice to make.
Brenda Sexton & Michael Wilmington: World on War: A Film Discussion
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Thomas R. Norris
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea
As the 2008 presidential election nears, all of the major candidates have taken steps to burnish their credentials on national security in the eyes of the electorate. But where do they stand on specific issues of intelligence and defense, and how would their respective administrations transform our nation's approach to homeland security?
Holger Herwig discusses his book, "The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I & The Battle That Changed The World".
Kimberly Dozier discusses her new book, "Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report - and Survive - the War in Iraq".
Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War
Jake Tapper spent nearly two years investigating the events at Combat Outpost Keating and interviewing more than 225 individuals who played important roles both home and abroad.
Ed Tracy interviews Vietnam War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Sammy L. Davis.
Front & Center with John Callaway: Mexico
Operatives, Spies and Saboteurs: The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of WWII's OSS
On War Military History Symposium: New Perspectives on WWII
Ed Tracy interviews Marcus Luttrell about his book, "Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10".
Historian and professor Cord Scott shares his insightful survey of American comic book depictions of war, providing a fresh perspective on the entwined nature of cultural and military history.
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
Ed Tracy hosts a panel discussion with members of the 2011 Vietnam Veterans 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. Also discussed are events for the upcoming 2011 Welcome Home Parade – the 25th anniversary of the original – and ways in which American citizens can do a better job welcoming home our current service members, so that they will know they are not forgotten.
Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe
Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Robert Maxwell about his life and service in World War II.
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Wesley L. Fox
Award-winning author Janet Burroway explores the loss of her son, a military contractor, to suicide in this program sponsored by Think Piece Publishing.
Service in Iraq is offering American military personnel new challenges in the field and at home. What are our soldiers experiencing in Iraq and what are they facing when they return home? John Callaway asks Iraq veterans to tell their stories.
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Richard A. Pittman
Joseph L. Galloway, sixty-six, is a native of Refugio, Texas. The author of a weekly syndicated column on military and national security affairs, he recently retired as senior military correspondent of Knight-Ridder Newspapers.

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Front & Center with John Callaway: Homeland Security: Is Chicago Prepared?
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Battle for Baqubah: Killing Our Way Out is a firsthand account of a fifteen-month span in the volatile Diyala Province of Iraq. This story is presented through the eyes of a first sergeant serving with B Company 1-12 Cavalry , 1st Cavalry Division, out of Fort Hood, Texas. The author takes the reader into the midst of the conflict in and around Baqubah-Iraq's "City of Death"—a campaign that lasted most of 2007.

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Join Joseph L. Galloway and Hal Moore, with host John Callaway, who will explore how one identifies the right story, verifies the details, and writes a compelling article...on deadline...on Front and Center with John Callaway.
Thomas Fleming discusses his book, a riveting and character-driven history that traces the “disease in the public mind” — distortions of reality that seized large numbers of Americans — in the decades-long run-up to the Civil War.
Should we mount a national initiative to expand language and cultural studies to upgrade our understanding of the world? How can we improve military intelligence so that our peace keeping and nation building missions can be safer and more successful? Can the intelligence and operational policies used in World War II and the Cold War inform our approach to challenges we face today or are these same policies clouding our ability to wage an effective war on terror? Did the success of technology in the Gulf War give us false confidence in our ability to create a democratic Iraq? John Callaway and his guests explored these and related issues.
The Courage to Take Command: Leadership Lessons from a Military Trailblazer
What do Saving Private Ryan, The Pianist and Kanal have in common? The Pritzker Military Museum & Library welcomed film critic Michael Wilmington and Brenda Sexton, Managing Director of the Illinois Film Office, for a reception and discussion of war films.
Battlefield Angels: Saving Lives Under Enemy Fire
Front & Center with John Callaway: Israel - A Strategic Review
Front & Center with John Callaway: The Future of U.S. Intelligences in the War on Terror
No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century
Robert Patton discusses his new book, "Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom & Fortune in the American Revolution".
Author Jeff Shaara discusses his new book, "The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II".
As the war in Iraq continued in 2005, death and casualty figures included increasing numbers of women. Although women were technically not assigned to combat, the lack of a front line in Iraq put female soldiers at a risk similar to their male counterparts. John Callaway and his guests explored how the role of women has evolved in today's military.
In December 1965, David Spears said good-bye to his wife and three children and went to fight in Vietnam; he returned "in a cargo plane full of caskets" in July 1966. His family has never been the same. "He was the center of what made me feel safe," Zacharias, then in third grade, explains.
Anthony Weller talks about his new collection of his father George Weller's war reports, "Weller's War: A Legendary Foreign Correspondent's Saga of World War II on Five Continents".
Ed Tracy interviews Chicago Alderman Edward M. Burke about his book, "End of Watch: Chicago Police Killed in the Line of Duty 1853-2006".
A self-help book unlike any other, best-selling author, Navy SEAL, and humanitarian Eric Greitens' Resilience is a masterpiece of warrior wisdom that shows how to overcome obstacles with positive action.
The votes are cast, and the results are in - after eight years, the United States will have a new President, Barack Obama. But after all of the pomp and circumstance, what's next for our new Commander-in-Chief? What early challenges will he face abroad, and what foreign policy decisions will figure in his agenda? Join John Callaway and his panel, including John J. Mearsheimer, Celina B. Realuyo, and John E. Scully, for a look ahead at the new administration on Front & Center.
Front & Center with John Callaway: First Into Nagasaki

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Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Donald E. Ballard about his life and service in the U.S. Navy in Vietnam, as well as the Kansas National Guard.
Author Ralph Peters discusses his new collection of essays, "Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the 21st Century".
Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Paul W. Bucha about his life and service with the U.S. Army in Vietnam.
The Army and the Army Reserves missed their March 2005 recruiting goals, as they had in February of that year for the first time since May 2000. While the Navy and Marines successfully met their goals, the role of all recruiters became more challenging in the face of the American presence in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Robert Maxwell
Ed Tracy interviews Stephen Coonts, author of "Flight of the Intruder" and other aerial and suspense fiction.
Military historian Donald Stoker discusses his perceptive biography of Carl von Clausewitz, which moves skillfully between Clausewitz's career as a soldier and his work as a theoretician and author.
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
In recent years, Pakistan has assumed a major role in the international scene. But as a relatively new country - albeit one with ancient traditions - how is Pakistan dealing with the overwhelming political, military, and economic challenges it faces, all while grappling with extremists and the risk of insurrection? And what is America's strategic position with regard to a nuclear-armed Pakistan? Join us for an exploration of Pakistan, its neighbors, and its place in the Islamic world on Front & Center with John Callaway.
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Historian John Wukovits discusses his new book, "Eisenhower: A Biography".
In his extraordinary book, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, Hampton Sides brings the conquest of the West to vivid life. At the center of the narrative stands the legendary Kit Carson - the trapper, scout, and soldier who embodied all of the contradictions and complexities of the American experience in the West. Brave and clever, beloved by his contemporaries, Carson was an illiterate mountain man who twice married Indian women, and understood and respected the tribes better than any other American alive - and yet was also a cold-blooded killer, who willingly followed orders tantamount to massacre.

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Front & Center with John Callaway: Gays in the Military: A Policy Review
The Pritzker Military Library welcomes back James "Maggie" Megellas for a special interview covering the second part of his celebrated World War II memoir All the Way to Berlin.
Author Scott Turow discusses his new book, "Ordinary Heroes: A Novel".
Geoffrey Perret visited the library to talk about his latest book, Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America 's Greatest President as Commander in Chief.

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Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: John F. Baker, Jr.
Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972
Franklin & Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
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, and still roams the battlefields of Afghanistan today: the Vietnam Syndrome.
Tom Clavin talks about his new book, "The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat".
Neil Hanson talks about his new book, "Monk Eastman: The Gangster Who Became a War Hero".
Front & Center with John Callaway: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Stephen Lang visited the library to talk about his new play Beyond Glory, a one-man show about the experiences of eight Medal of Honor recipients.
Following the signing of the Patriot Act in October 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, a national debate has raged on whether the act provides necessary tools to fight terrorism or deprives Americans of basic civil rights. John Callaway and his guests explored the Patriot Act and its impact on American security and liberty.
General Richard B. Myers, USAF talks about his memoir, "Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Security".
Lost In Translation:The War On Terror's Forgotten Interpreters
Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History
Joan Waugh discusses her book, "U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth".
Historian Donald L. Miller discusses his new book, "Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany".
Symposium - Urban Warfare: Operational Challenges
Author Gary W. Moore discusses his new book, "Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams".
Bryan Battaglia: Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
As the debate intensified over the success of the U.S. policy in Iraq, public support for maintaining a military presence in Iraq diminished in 2005. Could the U.S. effectively fight an insurgency where no front line exists? What has the United States learned from battling insurgencies in the past? And how would the strain of a national emergency at home affect our armed forces' ability to maintain operations abroad?
Scholar, author and combat veteran John Nagl discusses his new book, "Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam".
Battle Ready: Memoir of a SEAL Warrior Medic
Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941
Join John Callaway and his guests as they explore how today's military chaplains prepare for and live their ministry of service to soldiers on the battlefield and their families back on base.
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Alfred V. Rascon
Author Andrew Carroll discusses his new book, "Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, In the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families".
No matter how far the fire may have spread — standing in the midst of an inferno, one sees only flames.
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Donald E. Ballard

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With over 7,000 people killed since the beginning of last year, drug-related violence is spiraling out of control in Mexico, and martial law has been declared in Ciudad Juarez. But the problem is no longer confined by national borders - kidnappings, home invasions, and other violent crimes are beginning to spill over into U.S. cities such as Phoenix, Tucson, and even Atlanta. In the midst of widespread police corruption, can the Mexican government enforce the rule of law? What approach is the White House taking to address this growing threat to our national security? And what role do U.S. weapons - and demand for illegal drugs - play in this ongoing tragedy? Join John Callaway and his panel of experts as they look at the crisis in Mexico on Front & Center.
Ties that Bind: Canada/U.S. International Security Cooperation

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With the United States transferring power to an interim government, what would be the ongoing role of the United States in Iraq?
Patrick K. O'Donnell, author of Operatives, Spies and Saboteurs: The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of WWII's OSS spoke at the library.
With recent studies suggesting that the shrinking size of the U.S. military has resulted in an increasing disconnect between soldiers and civilians, newly appointed Army Chief of Public Affairs Brigadier General Malcolm Frost is heading up a nationwide initiative that aims to bring senior leaders to the public at events and appearances where they can tell the Army story in places where it is not often heard in the first person.
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Harvey C. 'Barney' Barnum
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Harold A. Fritz
Editors Harry Butowsky and Sandra O'Connell discuss their new book, "An American Family in World War II", which collects more than 300 letters sent by the Minker family of Delaware during World War II.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Tim Weiner discusses his new book, "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA".
New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy
Front & Center with John Callaway: The U.S. Military in Iraq: Who is Winning?
Ed Tracy interviews Vietnam War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Bruce P. Crandall.
Front & Center with John Callaway: The Politics of Defense and National Security
An interview with Joseph Persico, author of "The Imperial Rockefeller", "Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial", "Roosevelt's Secret War", and "My American Journey".
Moderated by Author Sean Naylor, six Colby Award Winners talk about their award winning books.
Sergeant Mike Dowling and his military working dog Rex were one of the first Marine Corps military K9 teams sent to the front lines of combat since Vietnam. Sergeant Rex is the story of a human-canine relationship forged in combat. Through first-hand accounts of dangerous patrols in Iraq, Dowling artfully describes the role working dogs play in today's military.

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Gordon F. Hohne, Zenon B. Lukosius, Wayne M. Pickels and Phillip N. Trusheim—veterans of USS Pillsbury and members the USS Guadalcanal's U-505 Boarding Party—and Keith Gill, U-505 Curator, Museum of Science and Industry, join John Callaway for this special episode of Front & Center with John Callaway.
Dr. Harlan K. Ullman—a Vietnam veteran of the U.S. Navy and a scholar in the areas of law, diplomacy, politics, and strategy—shares his insightful historical analyses and critical recommendations to steer the nation away from danger.
Lincoln's Tragic Admiral: The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont
William I. Hitchcock discusses his new book, "The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe".
Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton Jr. discusses his autobiography, "Becton: Autobiography of a Soldier and a Public Servant".
Rich with relevance to today's news from the Middle East and a gripping piece of storytelling, James Arnold's The Moro War is a must-read to understand a formative conflict too long overlooked and to anticipate the future of U.S. involvement overseas.
Decisive Battles: From Yorktown to Operation Desert Storm
Mark Moyar talks about his new book, "A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq".
The Regulars: The American Army, 1898 - 1941
Colby Symposium: Turning Point: 36 Days on Iwo Jima 1945
The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century
Professor Gabor Boritt discusses his new book, "Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows".
Thirty years ago, Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist Philip Caputo crossed the deserts of Sudan and Eritrea on foot and camel back, a journey that inspired his first novel, Horn of Africa, and awakened a lifelong fascination with Africa. His travels have since taken him back to Sudan, as well as to Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania, and from those experiences he has fashioned Acts of Faith, his most ambitious novel. A stunning and timely epic, it tells the stories of pilots, aid workers, missionaries, and renegades struggling to relieve the misery wrought by the civil war in Sudan.
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Courage in Conflict: What it Means to be a Hero
Ed Tracy interviews Vietnam War Navy SEALs and Medal of Honor recipients Michael Thornton and Thomas Norris.
Author James S. Robbins discusses his new book, "Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point".
Front & Center with John Callaway: Battlefield Ministry
Anthony Weller, author and son of respected reporter George Weller, joins John Callaway to discuss his father's career as a reporter and combat correspondent, and how his unique experiences and reports from post-war Japan were censored by military authorities.
Former White House Fellow and Marine Corps officer Elliot Ackerman discusses with Dr. Truman Anderson his gripping, morally complex debut novel, Green on Blue—an astonishing feat of empathy and imagination about boys caught in a deadly conflict.
Doug Stanton talks about his new book, "Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan".
From Hannibal's elephants to Patton's passenger pigeons, animals have been an important component of military operations. Today, many animals both on land and at sea are integral to research and combat operations for our armed forces. John Callaway and his panel take an historic perspective on the integration of animals in warfare and an exploration of the issues surrounding the use of animals in the military today.
Anne Nivat covered the Chechen war for the French daily Libération and is currently the Moscow correspondent for Ouest-France. She has written pieces for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune, and has appeared on NPR's Fresh Air, The Connection, and PBS's NewsHour.
Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War
Author Neil Hanson discusses his new book, "Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War".
Rick Kogan interviews Darrell Griffin, Sr. about his new book, "Last Journey: A Father and Son in Wartime".
Author Kerry Trask discusses his new book on the Sauk Indians, "Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America".
Front & Center with John Callaway: Military Contracting
Social Responsibility and National Security: Towards a New NATO
Symposium - Urban Warfare: Ethical Challenges

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The September 2007 visit of Iran's president, Dr. Ahmadinejad, to the United States has brought U.S. relations with Iran into sharp focus. Iran's relationship with Iraq and role in the Middle East is complex. What role is Iran playing in the war on terror and in the U.S. role in Iraq? Does Iran's apparent supplying of weapons and supplies to Iraqi insurgents justify calls for action against that country? Join John Callaway and his panel for an exploration of the role of Iran on Front & Center.
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A journalist on the U.S. military beat has unique challenges: evaluating military briefings, developing one's own sources, and dealing with classified information. How can readers, viewers, and listeners get a good sense of what's going on in war zones when security concerns are so great that reporters often cannot get into the field to report in any meaningful way?
An incisive panel discussion on the indispensable and often under-appreciated role played by foreign interpreters during America's war on terror, and the significant challenges faced by these allies in their post-war lives; with former United States Army Infantry Officer Erik Malmstrom, former Afghani interpreter Khalilullah Farshad Yewazi, and Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project Director Becca Heller; moderated by Brigadier General Craig E. Bennett.
Moderated by Lewis Sorley, Carlo D'Este and Geoffrey Perret discuss American's 34th President.
Stephen L. Moore talks about his new book, "Presumed Lost: The Incredible Ordeal of America's Submarine POWs during the Pacific War".
Until the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the United States was reluctant to enter the fray of World War II, donating supplies and artillery to the Allied forces instead of sending troops. However, for five young men with privileged backgrounds and Ivy League educations, fighting fascism was so important they decided not to wait for U.S. involvement in the growing conflict. Chuck Bolte, Jack Brister, Bill Durkee, Heyward Cutting, and Robert Cox enlisted in the British Army, and, as a result, became the first Americans to fight against the Nazis.
Author Dave Palmer discusses his new book, "George Washington & Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots".
Ed Tracy interviews Harvey C. "Barney" Barnum, Medal of Honor recipient and Marine Officer for more than 27 years.
Martha Raddatz discusses her book about the Iraq War, "The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family".
Ed Tracy interviews World War II veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Walter D. Ehlers about his life and experiences on the beach at Normandy.

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R. Alan King discusses his Colby Award-winning memoir, "Twice Armed: An American Soldier's Battle for Hearts and Minds in Iraq".
Commemorating World War One: The Trial of Hate
Author Bob Drury discusses his new book about WWII in the Pacific, "The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue".

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Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Allen J. Lynch
Author Andro Linklater discusses his new book, "The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity".
Ed Tracy interviews 89-year-old James "Maggie" Megellas about his World War II combat experiences and leadership challenges, as outlined in his book, "All the Way to Berlin."
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Thomas G. Kelley
Russell S. Bonds talks about his book, "Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor", and the event's many depictions in American culture.
Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief
John C. McManus talks about his new book, "Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq".
Join John Callaway and panelist and legal experts Gary Isaac, Dr. Alberto R. Coll and Steven Presser to explore the intricacies of war and the law.
Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest
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Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945
In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat
Author and reporter Charles Jones discusses his new book, "Boys of '67: From Vietnam to Iraq, the Extraordinary Story of a Few Good Men".
Steve Edwards, host of Chicago Public Radio's award-winning daily news magazine Eight Forty-Eight, interviews Sir Max Hastings about his book Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 .
John Callaway and his guests explore the First Line of Defense and the Expanding Role of the Citizen Soldier.

Front & Center with John Callaway: An Update on the Guard and Reserve
The last several years have presented unprecedented challenges for the Reserve components of the U.S. Military and the National Guard. How are they handling the military, political, and economic realities of our involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere? What is their status, and how ready are they to face challenges yet to come? Join John Callaway and his panel of experts for an update on the Reserves of each branch of service and Guard, including an in-depth look at the U.S. Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard, on Front & Center.

Retired Marine Corps four-star general John R. Allen was the longest-Serving Leader of U.S. and NATO Troops in Afghanistan. Presented in partnership with Leading Authorities, he visits PMML to share awe-inspiring stories about the most important aspects of leadership, from the strategic level to the tactical combat level.
Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Richard A. Pittman about his life and experience with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam.
Ed Tracy interviews Rick Atkinson about his life and career as a military historian.
Ed Tracy interviews Leo K. Thorsness, a Vietnam War fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient.
Andrei Cherny discusses his new book, "The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour".
Ed Tracy interviews Sir Max Hastings about his book, "Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45".
David Maraniss visited the library to talk about his new book They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967.
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, the leaders of the young American republic and the British empire struggled to control their own diverse peoples.
John Callaway and his guests examine the changing tide in the US engagement in Iraq on Front & Center.
Front & Center with John Callaway: Today's National Guard
Noted scholar and military historian Gerhard L. Weinberg, a veteran of the U.S. Army and its post-World War II occupation of Japan, is interviewed by the Chicago Tribune's Greg Burns. Sponsored by Plante Moran and presented as part of ON WAR 2014.
From Iraq to Korea, the U.S. military makes daily headlines. The 2004 presidential candidates both spoke of a strong American military, but what did that actually mean? How would the shape of our Armed Forces be affected by the election? What contrasting visions were the presidential candidates presenting for the future of the United States men and women in uniform? John Callaway asked the presidential campaigns to weigh in on forward plans for the U.S. Military.
Jeremiah Workman talks about his new book "Shadow of the Sword: A Marine's Journey of War, Heroism, and Redemption".
John Callaway interviewed acclaimed author Alex Kershaw for this special episode of Front & Center with John Callaway.
Historian Chandra Manning discusses her new book, "What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War".
Before the First Shots are Fired: How America Can Win or Lose Off the Battlefield
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While America's Civil War was fought on Confederate battlefields, Chicago played a crucial role in the Union's struggle toward victory. Arnie Bernstein's new book The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago's Civil War Connections takes you through a whirlwind tour of 19th century events that created the foundation for modern-day Chicago.
As American and coalition troops fight the first battles of this new century -- from Afghanistan to Yemen to the Philippines to Iraq -- they do so in ways never before seen. Until recently, information war was but one piece of a puzzle, more than a sideshow in war but far less than the sum total of the game.
Presented in partnership with the Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest, the Museum & Library will host a trio of panel discussions featuring expert commentary on the operational, ethical, and legal challenges that must be understood and overcome by governments and militaries faced with engaging enemy combatants in densely populated urban areas.
Jeff Shaara talks about his new book, "No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II".
Col. Thomas X. Hammes discusses his new book, "The Sling and The Stone: On War in the 21st Century".
Michael Pearlman discusses his book, "Truman and MacArthur: Policy, Politics, and the Hunger for Honor and Renown".
Robert Kurson visited the library to talk about his new book Shadow Divers .
Host Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Paul Bucha.
Richard Langworth is the founder of the Churchill Centre, editor of the Finest Hour, and a leading authority on Churchill.
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.
In some ways, it was the kind of surgical procedure that doctors handle every day — a sudden case of acute appendicitis, requiring an emergency appendectomy. But there were a few things most of those doctors have that Pharmacist's Mate Wheeler B. Lipes didn't: standard medical equipment, surgical training, or an operating room that's not aboard a submarine on patrol in enemy waters.
Author Ed Ruggero discusses his new book, "The First men In: U.S. Paratroopers and the Fight to Save D-Day".
The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan
Sebastian Junger spent several months embedded with the Second Platoon of the 173rd Airborne Brigade during their 2007-08 deployment to the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan. Command called the soldiers of Second Platoon “the best trained...and worst disciplined”; they could be found in battle wearing shorts and flip-flops, but they also endured sudden swings from stultifying boredom to mortal danger. In Junger’s description, they were the soldiers who existed “on the tip of the spear” – and in WAR, he attempts to evoke the unvarnished reality of their experiences on the ground in Afghanistan, as well as the challenges they faced in their returns to civilian life.
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Machiavelli, the Citizen Soldier, and the Art of War
Author James L. Swanson discusses his book, "Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer".
Front & Center with John Callaway: The Two Koreas
During his six and a half years of incarceration, John Borling, Major General, USAF, Ret., mentally composed poetry and communicated it to fellow prisoners via a special, but forbidden, tap code. 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the release of American POWs held at the infamous Hoa Lo Prison, known as the Hanoi Hilton. General Borling sat down with Library President and CEO Kenneth Clarke to discuss the new book.
LeOna Kriesel was a 27-year-old recent college graduate and teacher when a fellow teacher recruited her for the American Red Cross. From 1943 to 1945, LeOna ran enlisted men's social clubs in Constantine, Algeria, and Rome, Italy. Now, her daughter Kathleen Cox has captured that story.
The practice of "embedding" journalists in combat units provided a good deal of spectacular, timely footage, but tended to restrict insight to the frontline perspective of riflemen and vehicle crews. Murray and Scales provide a lucid and leavened look at the larger-scale forces shaping the war. Murray , currently a fellow at the Institute of Defense Analysis, is an eminent military historian, and Scales , a retired major general and former commandant of the Army War College, is a familiar commentator on security issues. In this operational history, they eschew discussion of such abstractions as whether the war was a "revolution in military affairs."
Author Kevin J. Weddle discusses his new book, "Lincoln's Tragic Admiral: The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont".
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 fastest growing JROTC program in the country, including five Military High School Academies? Can America teach students effectively and find people willing to serve in the military without JROTC? What does it cost, who really benefits, and what is the future of High Schools, Military Academies and JROTC? John's panel includes Michael McConnell, American Friends Service Committee; Rick Mills, Chicago Public Schools; and Linda Tafel, National Louis University.
Hero Mama: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost in Vietnam - and the Mother who Held Her Family Together
Standing Down: From Warrior to Civilian, an anthology of 44 selections, was created for Talking Service, the Great Books Foundation’s initiative to develop reading and discussion programs for veterans, as well as their families, friends, service providers, and caregivers.
David Sears talks about his new book, "Such Men as These: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea".
Tanya Biank talks about her book "Army Wives: The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage", basis for the Lifetime television series of the same name.
Author Nathaniel Fick discusses his new book, "One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer".
The Liberator is author Alex Kershaw’s epic of close combat and extraordinary heroism, following the fortunes of U.S. Army officer Felix Sparks and his men as they fight from the invasion of Italy to the end of World War II.
No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel shadowed the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion as they carried out the infamous surge, a grueling fifteen-month tour that changed all of them forever. Now Finkel has followed many of those same men as they’ve returned home and struggled to reintegrate—both into their family lives and into American society at large.
Journalist Kristin Henderson discusses her new book, "While They're At War: The True Stories of American Families on the Homefront".
Acclaimed journalist and documentarian Sebastian Junger returns to the Pritzker Military Museum & Library for a special screening of his film, "Korengal."
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 is the final book in Rick Atkinson's critically acclaimed "Liberation Trilogy." The Guns at Last Light tells the story of generals and grunts, of battles and liberation in the ETO from operation Overlord — the D-Day invasion of Europe — to the final surrender of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers, and the Allies’ triumphant victory in Europe.
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The Medal of Honor is America's highest military award for valor in combat against an enemy force. It is reserved for those moments after the outcome has already been determined, after any observer would have considered the battle lost. The Medal of Honor is earned by ordinary men who refused to accept that history was already written. And in a moment of supreme courage, those men became extraordinary. Join us as we Commit to Courage with a look back at some of the finest moments from the first six years of Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy.
Ed Tracy interviews the Chicago History Museum's President, Gary Johnson and Vice President for Interpretation and Education Phyllis Rabineau, on the 150th anniversary of the Chicago Historical Society and its reopening as the Chicago History Museum.
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Salvatore A. Giunta
Bruce Chadwick discusses his new Civil War pre-history, "1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See".
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Walter J. Marm
The USS Enterprise fought at Pearl Harbor, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. All told, the Enterprise took part in twenty major battles during World War II, and is credited with sinking or wrecking 71 Japanese ships and destroying 911 enemy aircraft. In fact, 41 men who served aboard “The Big E” had ships named after them. In Enterprise, Barrett Tillman tells the story of what he calls the U.S. Navy’s most decorated ship, from commanders to deck scrubbers, and details her incredible combat record in the Pacific.

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Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, visited the library. He spoke about his new book In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat. This new work provides eye-witness accounts of the 101st Airborne Division during the War in Iraq.

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P.W. Singer discusses his new book, "Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution & Conflict in the 21st Century".
Author Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her award-winning new book, "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln".
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 in the fall of 2010. In this program we'll take a look at the history of this policy, how its impact has changed the lives of servicemen and servicewomen and what's coming up in the months ahead.
Ed Tracy interviews Vietnam War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Brian M. Thacker.
A panel of top military writers and historians discuss the battle that changed the course of World War II on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the American invasion of Iwo Jima.
At the time of this program, more than 8,000 U.S. military personnel had been injured in Iraq. While many received excellent medical care, others, particularly those in the Reserves and the National Guard, met unanticipated problems obtaining medical care, sorting through red tape, and getting the support they needed when they returned home. Despite wide publicity surrounding the issue, Congressional hearings, and improvement in some areas, the problems continue. John Callaway and his panel examined the challenges facing returning veterans.
Robert Schultz talks about his new book, "We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War".
Ed Tracy interviews Vietnam War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Allen J. Lynch.
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
David Finkel talks about his book, "The Good Soldiers".
Front & Center with John Callaway: The Politics of War
Front & Center with John Callaway: Crisis and Conflict in the Middle East
Join John Callaway and his panel of experts, including Shephard W. Hill of Boeing, Jim Hiles of MorganFranklin, and Prof. Arthur Cyr, as they explore and discuss the real costs - and benefits - of military contracting.
John Callaway interviews Lt. Gen. Robert Van Antwerp, Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Thomas J. Hudner
Author Alex Kershaw discusses his new book, "The Few: The American 'Knights of the Air' Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain".
Donald Stoker talks about his new book, "The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War".
The Hopkins Touch , examines the life of Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the New Deal's implementation and how he became an integral participant in America's relationships with Churchill and Stalin, speaking with authority second only to the president's.
The most decorated Physician Assistant in the history of the United States Navy and one of the highest decorated combat veterans of the Afghan and Iraq wars, former Navy SEAL Mark Donald shares his unique experiences as a warrior and medical officer.
Author Forrest Bryant Johnson discusses his biography of Medal of Honor recipient J.R. McKinney, "Phantom Warrior".
Discussing the ethical challenges of urban warfare are Dr. Asa Kasher, Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor Emeritus of Professional Ethics and Philosophy of Practice at Tel Aviv University, and Major General Daniel M. Krumrei, Adjutant General, Illinois National Guard. The program will be moderated by Major General Charles Tucker, Executive Director, World Engagement Institute and former Air Force JAG officer.
Theodore Karamanski, Rich Gordon, Pete McCloskey
Presented in partnership with McGraw-Hill Education, trailblazing female Army colonel Jill Morgenthaler shares her experiences and offers powerful leadership lessons from her new book.
Front & Center with John Callaway: The Tuskegee Airmen
Matt Gallagher talks about his book, "Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War".
Join John Callaway and his expert panelists Bruce DuMont, John Allen Williams and Timothy J. McNulty as they explore the politics of war and their impact on US policy on Front and Center.
Front & Center with John Callaway: The War on Terror
Ed Tracy interviews Brenda Wineapple about her new book, "White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson".
A Victor, Not A Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military Genius
In May, the 101st Airborne Division completed its year-long rotation in Eastern Afghanistan. The Screaming Eagles formed the backbone of Joint Task Force 101, a multi-national collective of military and civilian forces that were responsible for a 43,000 square mile region of Afghanistan designated as Regional Command-East. This region, with its 450 miles of border with Pakistan, saw some of the heaviest fighting of the war over the past year with the 101st losing 133 soldiers, the most causality for the unit in a single deployment since the Vietnam War.
Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Michael Thornton about his life and service as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam.
Front & Center with John Callaway: Special Edition with Alex Kershaw
Military History Symposium: The War for Korea, 1950-1951
Military History Symposium: Big Men of WWII
Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Salvatore A. Giunta about his life and service with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan.
Author Max Boot discusses his new book, "War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today".
Front & Center with John Callaway: Capt. Jim Lovell
Ed Tracy interviews Maxwell Taylor Kennedy about his new book, "Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill & The Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her".
Retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor talks about his book, "Warrior's Rage: The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting".
Ed Tracy interviews Carlo D'Este, retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and highly regarded military historian of such books as "Patton: A Genius for War" and "Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life 1890-1945".
Join John Callaway and his panel featuring special guest Deputy Director Tammy Duckworth of the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs as they explore the health and welfare challenges facing returning veterans on "Front and Center". Other panelists include Dr. Elliot Roth, Chief Academic Officer of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Ed Edmundson, father of Sgt. Eric Edmundson, wounded in Iraq and a patient at the RIC.
In Honor of Memorial Day and to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, this unique event features some of Chicago’s prominent veteran and civilian civic leaders.
Ed Tracy interviews Vietnam War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Thomas G. Kelley.

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From May through December 1985 the CIA experienced the unparalleled loss of its stable of Soviet assets. There was no indication of the impending disaster, which all but wiped out human source reporting on the Soviet Union. Whatever the nature of the problem, something was seriously wrong.
One of the leading historians of WWI offers this superior one-volume version of his massive projected three-volume work, the first volume of which, To Arms, clocked in at 1250-plus pages last year.

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Front & Center with John Callaway: Returning Veterans
Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Robert M. Patterson about his life and service with the U.S. Army in Vietnam.
The last decade has seen many books recounting the actions of German Christians who helped Jews survive the Holocaust.
Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan. Outlaw Platoon follows the story of Sean Parnell's service with the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan.
In Decisive Battles: From Yorktown to Operation Desert Storm, Jonathon Riley draws on his personal experience as a soldier and historian to explore the definitive battles of the modern era, including Waterloo in 1815 — which concluded more than twenty years of war with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and instituted alliances that dominated Europe until 1860 — and the Ardennes in 1944, when Hitler threw away his last army that could have stalled the Allied advance into Germany.
Author James M. Olson discusses his new book, "Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying".
The Museum & Library's newest orginal work—a personal odyssey of service from the Civil War to the Spanish-American War, offering a firsthand glimpse into the life of a 19th Century American citizen soldier—is explored in detail by Editor Susan Gilbreath Lane, Executive Editor Kenneth Clarke, and Civil War historian Frederick J. Chiaventone.
It is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can make the difference between victory and defeat. This is the dramatic story of sixty-eight soldiers in the US Army’s 2nd Ranger Battalion, Company D—“Dog Company”—who made that difference, time and again.
Interview with Medal of Honor recipient Gary L. Littrell.
Author and Speaker Ed Ruggero has helped clients as diverse as the FBI, CitiFinancial, the New York City Police Department, Time, the CIA, Forbes, General Mills, Johnson & Johnson, P&G, and Hugo Boss USA develop the kind of leaders that people want to follow.
In her debut novel, Lea Carpenter tells a powerful story of a mother's love as she awaits news about the fate of her son, a Navy SEAL, who is missing in action.
Russell S. Bonds talks about his book, "War Like the Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta".
Craig Mullaney talks about his memoir, "The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education".
Robert M. Poole talks about his book, "On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery".
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Drawing on primary sources, the author presents a fascinating account of the War of 1812 as James and Dolley Madison experienced it.

Reverend Gregory has to tell an unwed mother-to-be that she can't sing in the choir, and she ends up delivering her baby with the help of a squeamish Deacon Frye.

Join John Callaway for an interview with two veterans of Iwo Jima - William Hudson and Col. Gerald Russell, USMC .

Deacon Ernest Frye hires a new minister, Reverend Reuben Gregory , for the First Community Church of Philadelphia, and the two argue over a young basketball player's future.

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Jon R. Cavaiani
John Callaway interviews Warren Kozak about his new book, "LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay".
Dr. Heidi Squier Kraft discusses her new book, "Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital", a first-hand account of seven months with a Marine Corps surgical company immersed in Iraq, earth-shaking artillery rounds, and the all-encompassing desert.

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Author George Crile discusses his new book, "Charlie Wilson's War", and the forthcoming movie starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.
Ed Tracy interviews Medal of Honor recipient Harold A. Fritz about his life and service with the U.S. Army in Vietnam.
Hitler in the Crosshairs: A GI's Story of Courage and Faith
Front & Center with John Callaway: We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
Front & Center with John Callaway: The Recruiting Office: The New Front Line?
Discussing the legal challenges of urban warfare are Loyola University School of Law Assistant Professor John C. Dehn, JD, a former U.S. Army judge advocate, and Major General Danny Efroni, Israeli Defense Force, Military Advocate General Corps. The program will be moderated by Ambassador Feisal Amin Rasoul Istrabadi, Professor of Practice, Indiana University Maurer School of Law and IU School of Global and International Studies.
When the major powers sent troops to the Korean peninsula in June of 1950, it supposedly marked the start of one of the last century's bloodiest conflicts. Allan Millett, however, reveals that the Korean War actually began with partisan clashes two years earlier and had roots in the political history of Korea under Japanese rule, 1910-1945.
While American troops are serving overseas, their families at home deal with both the anxiety of loved ones in combat as well as the day-to-day challenges of getting along without fathers or mothers, husbands or wives, and brothers or sisters. John Callaway talks with some of the families whose loved ones have been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Front & Center with John Callaway: Military Blogs
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, a contributing author to The Armchair Reader: World War II and The Armchair Reader: The Amazing Book of World History, and the editor of the Library of Texas edition of To the People of Texas.
Author Rick Atkinson discusses his World War II history, "The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944".
The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II
Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Robert M. Patterson
The US Army in World War II: Ten Things You Should Know
Bing West, a Marine combat veteran, served as an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration.
Author and veteran Karl Marlantes talks about his new book, "Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War".
John Hall talks about his book, "Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Blackhawk War".
Photographer Thomas Sanders and author Veronica Kavass talk about their new book, "The Last Good War: The Faces and Voices of World War II".
The grandson of WWII general George S. Patton Jr., documentary filmmaker Benjamin Patton specializes in biographies of individuals and families. Now, with former Vogue and Elle editor Jennifer Scruby, he offers a rare and intimate look into the life of a legendary man, and the legacy he passed down from one generation to the next in Growing Up Patton: Reflections on Heroes, History and Family Wisdom.
Front & Center with John Callaway: Pakistan
Front & Center with John Callaway: The Economics of National Security
Comics and Conflict: Patriotism and Propaganda from WWII through Operation Iraqi Freedom
Dealing with Difficult Allies from the American Revolution to Today
The invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq focused attention on veterans and the help they get—or don't get—when they come home. In Illinois, the Chicago Sun-Times was at the forefront with in-depth coverage of the challenges facing veterans and their families. John Callaway and his panel explored the impact of the Sun-Times' "Wounded Warriors" series on the Department of Veterans Affairs and policy makers.

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Shephard W. Hill, Jim Hiles, and Prof. Arthur Cyr
Commentator Michael Doubler discusses his new monograph, "The National Guard & The War on Terror: The Attacks of 9/11 and Homeland Security".

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Ten years ago, Richard Rubin set out to interview every last living doughboy—several dozen, aged 101 to 113. They shared with him, at the last possible moment the story of America’s Great War, and of the generation that raised the “Greatest Generation.” They were nineteenth-century men and women living in the twenty-first century: self-reliant, humble, and stoic; never complaining, still marveling at the immensity of the war they helped win.
John Callaway interviews Todd DePastino, author of the new book "Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front" and general editor of the cartoon collection "Willie & Joe: The World War II Years".
Front & Center with John Callaway: The Shape and Mission of the U.S. Military: What's Ahead for America?
Front & Center with John Callaway: USA Patriot Act: Security or Supression
Vietnam veteran and best-selling author Tim O'Brien is joined by award-winning poet and fellow veteran Bruce Weigl for a discussion of one of the 20th Century's most controversial American conflicts. Sponsored by Plante Moran and presented as part of ON WAR 2014.
U.S. Naval Institute Press and the United States World War One Centennial Commission.
Carlo D'Este talks about his new book, "Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945".
John Milton Cooper, Jr. talks about his book, "Woodrow Wilson: A Biography".
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Ed Tracy interviews Jack Jacobs, Medal of Honor recipient and author of the new book, "If Not Now, When?"
Ed Tracy interviews Vietnam War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Robert L. Howard.
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy: Paul W. Bucha
The event featured a special panel discussion about Guadalcanal, with special attention paid to the 132nd Infantry Regiment. Panelists James Dietz and Richard Frank were led by moderator Paul Hastings, a retired colonel of the Illinois National Guard.
This anthology covers four discussions from the Pritzker Military Museum & Library's On War: The Best Military Histories featuring Tim O'Brien, Karl Marlantes, Allan R. Millett, Gerhard Weinberg and Sir Max Hastings.
Ed Tracy interviews World War II veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Hershel "Woody" Williams about his life and experiences with the Marines on Iwo Jima.
Author James Campbell discusses his new World War II history, "The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea - The Forgotten War of the South Pacific".
Front & Center with John Callaway: First Line of Defense?
Combat Jump: The Young Men Who Led the Assault into Fortress Europe, July 1943
Front & Center with John Callaway: Soldier's Best Friends: Animals in the Military
With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918
The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
Front & Center with John Callaway: The Global Economic Crisis
No Turning Back: One Man's Inspiring True Story of Courage, Determination, and Hope
Charlie Wilson loved to have a good time, and found a seat in Congress to be a fine place for it - there was booze to drink, beautiful women to meet, and a secret mission to destroy international communism.
Ed Tracy interviews photographer Nick Del Calzo about his portraits of Medal of Honor recipients.
John Ross talks about his book, "War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier".
Author, historian, and professor Allan R. Millett, a retired colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves, sits down with Dr. John Allen Williams, USNR , for an exploration of the perils and unanticipated outcomes of alliances among countries with differing goals. Sponsored by Plante Moran and presented as part of ON WAR 2014.