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A program of The Institute for the Study of War and Democracy

November 29 – December 1, 2018

The National WWII Museum and Hyatt Regency New Orleans

FEATURING THE PRE-CONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM “THE TWO WORLD WARS:

1914 – 1945”

PRESENTED BY

WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM

THE GENERAL RAYMOND E. MASON JR. DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES ON WORLD WAR II ENDOWMENT FUND

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

COVER ILLUSTRATION: RON DOMINGUE

Dear Conference Attendee,

It is my great honor to welcome you to New Orleans for our 2018 International Conference on World War II.

Whether you are a first-time Conference attendee or one of our beloved regulars who participates every year, we are delighted that you have joined us for what has become the marquee WWII educational event of the year. Your passion and support for sharing the story of World War II are greatly appreciated by all of us at The National WWII Museum.

As we host our 11th International Conference, it is fitting that this year’s program falls in the same month as the centennial commemoration of the Armistice that ended World War I, “on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.”

This is why we have chosen to focus our pre-Conference symposium on “The Two World Wars: 1914-1945,” exploring the First World War and whether the Armistice actually ended the combat in November 1918, or merely delayed the larger conflict that was World War II.

Aligning our pre-Conference symposium with the Centennial of World War I has not only allowed us to focus on the broader context of World War II but has also helped us attract some of the leading historians of “The Great War” to our Conference lineup.

I want to thank our Presenting Sponsor, the Pritzker Military Museum & Library, and Colonel Jennifer Pritzker, who have been steadfast supporters of the International Conference on World War II for the past seven years. This weekend’s events would not be possible without their generosity along with the additional support from The General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series and JetBlue.

In addition to our wonderful sponsors, I want to thank the 2018 International Conference Planning Committee, which served as the guiding and driving force behind this year’s stellar program. Members include: Rick Atkinson, Günter Bischof, Ken Clarke, Con Crane, Rich Frank, Don Miller, Allan Millett, Nick Mueller, Alex Richie, and Gerhard Weinberg.

Just like you, I am eager to hear from this year’s wonderful lineup of speakers, and I look forward to interacting with you throughout the weekend as we work together to more deeply understand the war that changed the world and share the legacies of World War II with future generations.

Stephen J. Watson

President & CEO

The National WWII Museum

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Welcome to the 2018 International Conference

on World War II

Stephen J. WatsonPresident & CEO, The National WWII Museum

PRE-CONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM

“THE TWO WORLD WARS: 1914 – 1945”

Thursday, November 29, 2018

The National WWII Museum US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULEPRE-CONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Symposium Opening Remarks

8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. From 1918 to the Next War

“The Second Battle of the Marne”

– Michael Neiberg, PhD

“Sons of Freedom: The AEF in Europe”

– Geoffrey Wawro, PhD

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break and book signing

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m The Long Shadow: Legacy of the Great War

– David Reynolds, PhD

11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Break, book signing, and lunch

12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Learning to Lead: The Great War Experiences

of the Great WWII Commanders

“From One Reich to Another”

– Robert M. Citino, PhD

“Hail Britannia”

– Peter Caddick-Adams, PhD

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Break and book signing

2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. The General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Distinguished

Lecture on World War II

Ends Lead to Beginnings: The Armistice and the

Treaty of Versailles

– Margaret MacMillan, DPhil

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Symposium Closing Remarks and book signing

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Many Americans who experienced war in the trenches of Western Europe in

World War I later returned to liberate the same ground again in 1944 and 1945.

The military and political leaders of World War II learned the art of war from

1914-1918, and vowed not to repeat the mistakes of that conflict, nor the flawed

peace that ended it. This symposium explores the legacies, leadership lessons,

and tactics of World War I and how they affected World War II.

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Sir Antony Beevor’s latest book, The Battle of Arnhem came out this fall, just

in time for the 2018 International Conference on World War II presented by

Pritzker Military Museum & Library.

In The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II, the

prize-winning historian and internationally best-selling author of D-Day: The

Battle for Normandy reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem

in this gripping new account.

On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany’s

parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane engines. He went out

onto his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air

armada of Dakotas and gliders, carrying the legendary American 101st and 82nd

Airborne Divisions and the British 1st Airborne Division.

Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by

capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and

beyond, was a bold concept, but could it have ever

worked? The cost of failure was horrendous, above

all for the Dutch who risked everything to help.

German reprisals were pitiless and cruel, and lasted

until the end of the war.

Beevor, using often-overlooked sources from Dutch,

American, British, Polish, and German archives, has

reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting, which

General Student called “The Last German Victory.”

2018 International Conference on World War IIOpening Keynote Address

The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II – Sir Antony Beevor

Thursday, November 29, 2018 • 6:00 p.m. The National WWII Museum US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center


SPEAKER SIR ANTONY BEEVOR

Thursday, November 29

The National WWII Museum | Louisiana Memorial Pavilion and

US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center

4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Opening Reception


Louisiana Memorial Pavilion

6:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Conference Opening Remarks

– Stephen J. Watson, President & CEO



6:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Opening Keynote Address

The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne

Operation of World War II

– Sir Antony Beevor



7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Book Signing and Shuttle Service to the

Hyatt Regency

Friday, November 30 The Hyatt Regency New Orleans

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast in the Hospitality Ballroom at the Hyatt Regency

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWII’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home – Patrick K. O’Donnell


9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Battles Not to Fight: Peleliu and Hürtgen Forest Conrad Crane, PhD – Moderator Peleliu – Richard Frank Hürtgen Forest – Rick Atkinson


11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila

– James M. Scott

12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Break, book signing, and lunch

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Writing World War II: Fiction vs. Non-Fiction Donald L. Miller, PhD – Interviewer – Jessica Shattuck, author of The Women in the Castle


2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Tarawa: 75 Years Later Keith Huxen, PhD – Moderator

Bones of My Grandfather: Reclaiming a Lost Hero of World War II – Clay Bonnyman Evans

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency – Rebecca Taylor, PhD


4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. The Fear and the Freedom – Keith Lowe

5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Book signing

5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Open House / Reception at The National WWII Museum,

continuous shuttle service to and fromt the Hyatt Regency

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12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m Greatest Unheralded Commanders

Conrad Crane, PhD – Moderator

Philippe de Hauteclocque – Michael Neiberg, PhD

Stanislaw Sosabowski – Alexandra Richie, DPhil

Troy Middleton – Harold “Hal” Winton, PhD


2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Why the Germans Lost

Peter Caddick-Adams, PhD – Moderator

– James Holland

– Robert M. Citino, PhD


4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. A Conversation with Gerhard Weinberg, PhD

Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller – Interviewer

5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Book signing

6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Continuous shuttle service between the Hyatt

Regency and The National WWII Museum

6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Closing Banquet



6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Seating

7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Banquet Dinner

8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. The General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Distinguished

Lecture on World War II

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

– Andrew Roberts, PhD

9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Conference Closing Remarks and book signing

Saturday, December 1

The Hyatt Regency New Orleans

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast in the Hospitality Ballroom at the Hyatt

Regency

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Everything We Have – D-Day, June 6, 1944

Günter Bischof, PhD – Interviewer

– Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller, PhD


9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. The Lost Cause: Japan’s War 1943-1945

Allan Millett, PhD – Moderator

Delaying the Unendurable: The Japanese

– Hiroyuki Shindo

MacArthur’s Coalition: US and Australian

Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area

– Peter Dean, PhD


11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have

Been Won and Lost

– Cathal Nolan, PhD

12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. Break, book signing, and lunch

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We’re pleased to welcome bestselling and award-winning author Andrew

Roberts to The International Conference on World War II for the first time.

Dr. Roberts’ just released book Churchill: Walking with Destiny is being touted

as a “landmark reconsideration of the iconic war leader based on extensive new

material—from private letters and diaries to transcripts of war cabinet meetings.”

During his research for the book, Roberts was granted access to exclusive new

material: Queen Elizabeth II allowed him to study her father, King George VI’s

wartime diaries, which were filled with Churchill’s jokes, critiques, and reflections

on how the war was going. In addition, Roberts studied the transcripts of war

cabinet meetings, diaries, letters, unpublished memoirs, and detailed notes

taken by King George VI after their bi-weekly meetings, all

of which provide a wonderful new historical source.

Having read every one of Churchill’s letters—

including deeply personal ones that Churchill’s son

Randolph had previously chosen to withhold—and

having spoken to more than one hundred people

who knew or worked with him, Roberts identifies

the hidden forces fueling Churchill’s drive. Roberts’

masterwork reveals that Churchill has as much to

teach us about the challenges we face today—

and the fundamental values of courage, tenacity,

leadership, and moral conviction.


2018 International Conference on World War IIClosing Keynote Address The General Raymond E. Mason Distinguished Lecture on World War II

Churchill: Walking with Destiny – Andrew Roberts, PhD

Saturday, December 1, 2018 • 8:00 p.m.



SPEAKER ANDREW ROBERTS, PhD

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Award, and the 2010 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for

Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.

He holds a Master of Arts degree in English literature from the University of

Chicago. He worked as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and senior editor at

the Washington Post before leaving newspapers to write books full-time.

Atkinson served as the Gen. Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership at

the US Army War College, and currently sits on The National WWII Museum’s

Presidential Counselors advisory board.


His books have appeared in more than thirty languages and sold more than

seven million copies. Former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has

received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Kent, Bath, East Anglia,

and York. He is a visiting professor at the University of Kent and a Fellow of

King’s College London.

GÜNTER BISCHOF, PhD

Günter Bischof, PhD, is the Marshall Plan Professor

of History and Director of Center Austria at the

University of New Orleans. He is a historian of

international history, focusing on American and

European diplomatic history of the 20th century,

especially Cold War international relations, and

has written on POW treatment and memory of

World War II.

Bischof is the author of Austria in the First Cold

PETER CADDICK-ADAMS, PhD

Peter Caddick-Adams, PhD, was educated at

Shrewsbury School, the Royal Military Academy

Sandhurst, and Wolverhampton University, where

he gained First Class Honours in War Studies;

he received his PhD from Cranfield University.

He worked in the House of Commons, taught at

Oxford and Birmingham Universities before being

appointed Lecturer in Military and Security Studies

at the UK Defence Academy in 1999, and Lecturer

in Air Power in 2012. ©Hattie Miles

RICK ATKINSON

Rick Atkinson is the best-selling author of the

“Liberation Trilogy,” a narrative history of the US

military’s role in the liberation of Europe in World

War II. The trilogy consists of An Army at Dawn

(winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history), The Day

of Battle, and The Guns at Last Light, which was

released in May 2013. His other books include

The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers,

and Crusade. Atkinson is the recipient of two

Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, the George Polk

SIR ANTONY BEEVOR

Sir Antony Beevor’s latest book is The Battle of

Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of

World War II. A few of his award-winning published

works are: Crete – The Battle and the Resistance

(Runciman Prize); Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson

Prize, Wolfson Prize for History, and Hawthornden

Prize for Literature); The Battle for Spain (Premio La

Vanguardia); and D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

(Prix Henry Malherbe and the Royal United Services

Institute Westminster Medal).

War: The Leverage of the Weak, and also The Marshall Plan: Saving Europe,

Rebuilding Austria since 1947. He is the co-editor of Contemporary Austrian

Studies, served as co-editor (with Stephen Ambrose) of the 10-volume

Eisenhower Center Studies in Austrian and Central European History and

Culture and he also edits the series TRANSATLANTICA. Dr. Bischof has co-

edited a dozen other books and some 100 scholarly articles.

Dr. Bischof received his MA from the University of New Orleans and his PhD

from Harvard. He also served as the Post-Katrina Visiting Professor in the LSU

History Department. He serves as a Presidential Counselor to The National

WWII Museum.

Caddick-Adams has pursued a second career in the UK Regular and Reserve

Forces, was commissioned into the infantry in 1979 and joined the reserves in

1985. He has extensive experience of various war zones, including the Balkans,

Iraq and Afghanistan. During 1996–97 he was the official NATO Historian in

Bosnia, based in Sarajevo. He was also the UK Historian during the Iraq War of

2003, on the staff of the British Commander, based at CENTCOM in Qatar and

Iraq. He has written five books, the most recent being Snow and Steel:

The Battle of the Bulge 1944-45. Two previous works, Monty and Rommel:

Parallel Lives and Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell, were best sellers.



ROBERT M. CITINO, PhD

Robert M. Citino, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy and the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian at The National WWII Museum as well as one of America’s most distinguished military historians. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he attended St. Ignatius Loyola High School on the city’s west side, received his BA in History from The Ohio State University, and his MA and PhD from Indiana University. He joined the Museum in August 2016.

CONRAD CRANE, PhD

Conrad Crane, PhD, is currently Chief of Historical

Services for the Army Heritage and Education Center

at Carlisle Barracks. Prior to this, he was Director of

the US Army Military History Institute, and had served

with the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army

War College. Crane joined SSI after 26 years of

active military service, which concluded with 9 years

as Professor of History at the US Military Academy.

He holds a BS from USMA, an MA and PhD from

Stanford University, and is also a graduate of the

PETER DEAN, PhD

Peter Dean, PhD, is currently Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) at the University of Western Australia and a Senior Fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre. He is a strategic studies scholar who specializes in Australian and United States strategy in the Indo-Pacific, the ANZUS Alliance, Australian strategic policy, and military operations. He is a graduate of the University of Newcastle and the University of New South Wales and started his academic career at the

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Dr. Citino is an award-winning military historian and scholar who has published ten books including The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943; Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942; and The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich and numerous articles covering World War II and 20th century military history. He speaks widely and contributes regularly to general readership magazines such as World War II. Dr. Citino enjoys close ties with the US military establishment, and taught one year at the US Military Academy at

West Point and two years at the US Army War College.

US Army Command and General Staff College and the US Army War College.

He has authored or edited books and monographs on conflicts from the Civil

War through Vietnam. Before leaving SSI, Crane coauthored a prewar study

on Reconstructing Iraq, and was the lead author for the groundbreaking Army-

USMC counterinsurgency manual, which was released in December 2006.

He visited Iraq in November 2007 at General Petraeus’ request to evaluate

the new doctrine in action.

Crane published two books in 2016, American Airpower Strategy in World War

II: Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil and Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and

Future War. In 2016 he was selected to receive the Society for Military History’s

Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime contributions to the field of military history.

Crane currently serves on the Museum’s Presidential Counselors advisory board.

Sydney campus of the University of Notre Dame Australia as the foundation executive staff member of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Dean is the editor of the Melbourne University Press Defense Studies Series, a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Army Journal, and a former managing editor of the journal Security Challenges. He is a regular media commentator on Australian, United States, and regional defense issues. His book publications include: MacArthur’s Coalition, Australia’s American Alliance, Australia’s Defence: A New Era?, The Architect of

Victory, and Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War.

CLAY BONNYMAN EVANS

Clay Bonnyman Evans has been a journalist

and writer for more than three decades, having

worked for such publications as the Los Angeles

Times, Orange County Register and Daily Camera

(Boulder, Colorado). He is the author of three books

and hundreds of stories for such publications as

Princeton Alumni Weekly, New Mexico Magazine,

the Denver Post, Occidental Magazine, Marathon &

Beyond, Trail Runner, the Coloradan, and others.

Evans is the only living grandson of Marine 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., who

was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor after he was killed in action

on the tiny central Pacific atoll of Tarawa on November 22, 1943. Starting in

2010, Evans became a volunteer with the nonprofit organization History Flight,

Inc., in its search for hundreds of Marines buried on Tarawa in 1943 and never

recovered.

He was present in May and June 2015 when a History Flight archaeological

team located and recovered his grandfather’s remains, in a trench alongside

those of more than forty other Marines killed on Tarawa. Evans arranged for

three days of memorial events for the burial, with full military honors, of Lt.

Bonnyman in his hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee on September 27, 2015.



RICHARD FRANK

Richard Frank is an internationally renowned

expert on the Pacific War. After graduating from the

University of Missouri, he was commissioned in the

United States Army, in which he served for nearly

four years, including a tour of duty in the Republic

of Vietnam as an aerorifle platoon leader with the

101st Airborne Division. He completed studies at

Georgetown University Law Center in Washington,

DC. Soon afterwards he began research on his first

book, Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the

JAMES HOLLAND

James Holland is a historian, writer, and

broadcaster. The author of the best-selling

Fortress Malta, Battle of Britain, and Dam Busters,

he has also written nine works of historical fiction,

five of which feature the heroic Jack Tanner,

a soldier of World War II. He is currently writing a

three-volume new history of the war in the west.

The first volume, The War in the West: Germany

Ascendant, 1939-1941, received high praise and

was followed by The Allies Strike Back: 1941-1943,

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Landmark Campaign, which was published in 1990 and won the United States

Marine Corps’ General Wallace M. Greene Award.

Frank’s other publications include Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese

Empire, which won the 2000 Harry S. Truman Book Award, and MacArthur.

He has appeared numerous times on or consulted for programs on television

and radio, and was also a historical consultant and appeared as a key

interviewee in the HBO mini-series The Pacific. He is currently working on a

narrative history trilogy about the Asian-Pacific War. Frank also currently sits

on the Museum’s Presidential Counselors advisory board.

in October 2017. He regularly appears on television and radio, and has

written and presented the BAFTA-shortlisted documentaries Battle of Britain

and Dam Busters for the BBC, as well as the Battle for Malta, Cold War, Hot

Jets, and Normandy 44.

Co-founder and Programme Director of the hugely successful Chalke Valley

History Festival, he has his own collection at the Imperial War Museum, and

is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is also an avid cricketer, and

plays for both Chalke Valley CC and the Authors CC.

KEITH W. HUXEN, PhD

Keith W. Huxen, PhD, is a native of southern Louisiana. He holds a BA in history and political science from Louisiana State University and PhD in American history from George Washington University. For nearly a decade he was a teaching professor and college administrator at the Baton Rouge Community College, where he reached the rank of an Associate Professor teaching American history. He has taught modern European history at Louisiana State University and the University of New Orleans. He has lectured at Harris Manchester and

Pembroke colleges, Oxford University, and was most recently published in

Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table.

In 2011 Huxen joined The National WWII Museum, where he is the Senior Director of Research & History at the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. In August 2013 he was the featured tour historian for the Museum’s inaugural battlefield tour of Russia, and he served as the Curator of the Museum’s special exhibition Manufacturing Victory: The Arsenal of Democracy which opened in November 2014. Huxen has been heavily involved with the design and development of the Museum’s Road to Berlin, Road to Tokyo, and Arsenal of Democracy, exhibitions.

KEITH LOWE

Keith Lowe was born in 1970 and studied English Literature at Manchester University. After 12 years as a history publisher, he embarked on a full-time career as a writer and historian, and is now recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as an authority on World War II

and its aftermath.

He is the author of three major works of history. His first book, Inferno, was a critically-acclaimed study of the bombing of Hamburg in 1943. Using eyewitness testimonies from both sides, it described the horrors

of the greatest ever man-made firestorm, which killed around 40,000 people in a single night. His second book, Savage Continent, was a ground-breaking study of the wave of violence and revenge that swept Europe after the war. It became a Sunday Times top-10 bestseller, and went on to win both the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and Italy’s national Herasco History Prize. His latest book, The Fear and the Freedom, is an intimate history of the long-term consequences of World War II, and the shadow that it still casts over our lives today.

Lowe regularly speaks on TV and radio, and he often lectures on post-war history at venues across Europe and North America. He has written for a variety of newspapers and journals, including Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Neue Zürcher Zeitung.



MARGARET MACMILLAN, DPhil

Margaret MacMillan, DPhil, is a Professor of History

at the University of Toronto and the former Warden

of St. Antony’s College. Her books include Women

of the Raj; Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed

the World, for which she was the first woman to

win the Samuel Johnson Prize; Nixon in China:

Six Days that Changed the World; The Uses and

Abuses of History; and Extraordinary Canadians:

Stephen Leacock. Her most recent book is The

War that Ended Peace. She is a Fellow of the Royal

DONALD L. MILLER, PhD

Donald L. Miller, PhD, is the John Henry

MacCracken Professor of History Emeritus at

Lafayette College and one of the outstanding

historians of World War II, along with other topics in

American history. His books on World War II include

The Story of World War II, D-Days in the Pacific, and

Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who

Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany. Masters

of the Air, named “outstanding book of the year”

by WWII Magazine, is the primary source for HBO’s

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Society of Literature and a Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto,

Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto and of St Hilda’s College,

University of Oxford. MacMillan sits on the boards of the Mosaic Institute and the

editorial boards of International History and First World War Studies. She is also a

Trustee of the Rhodes Trust.

She has honorary degrees from the University of King’s College, the Royal Military

College, The University of Western Ontario, Ryerson University, Toronto, Huron

University College of the University of Western Ontario, the University of Calgary,

and the University of Toronto. In 2006 Professor MacMillan was invested as an

Officer of the Order of Canada and in 2015 became a Companion.

upcoming miniseries, on which Miller is serving as chief historical consultant.

He was also a historical consultant for HBO’s miniseries The Pacific, and

served as writer and chief historical consultant for WWII in HD, a 10-hour series

that aired on the History Channel. His works on other history subjects include

City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America.

Miller is a longstanding member of the Museum’s Presidential Counselors

advisory body and has been a key advisor to Museum leadership on many

projects, including content elements for major pavilions. He is among scholar

participants in the Museum’s overseas tours and has been a leading figure in

summer workshops for teachers.

GORDON H. “NICK” MUELLER, PhD

Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller, PhD, is President and

CEO Emeritus of The National WWII Museum.

Dr. Mueller assisted historian Stephen Ambrose

in founding the institution, initially known as The

National D-Day Museum, and led the organization

as Chairman of the Board from 1998, through its

fundraising and construction to the Grand Opening

on June 6, 2000, and then as President & CEO for

the next 17 years.

ALLAN MILLETT, PhD

Allan Millett, PhD, is a retired Colonel of the Marine

Corps Reserve and a specialist in the history of

American military policy. He is the author of many

books including A War to be Won, which he co-

authored with Williamson Murray, For the Common

Defense: A Military History of United States form

1607-2012; Semper Fidelis: The History of the

United States Marine Corps; and The Second

World War in 100 Objects.

Millett was the 2008 recipient of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library

Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. He taught

military history at The Ohio State University for 37 years, where he served

as a mentor to generations of scholars in the field, and currently serves as

the Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Ambrose

Professor of History at the University of New Orleans. Millett is the Senior

Military Advisor to the President of The National WWII Museum and sits on the

Museum’s Presidential Counselors advisory board.

Before stepping into the museum world, Dr. Mueller enjoyed a 33-year career

as Professor of European History at the University of New Orleans. During

his tenure there he also served as Dean, Vice Chancellor, and founding

President of the Research and Technology Park. He is also founder of

UNO’s Metropolitan College, Business-Higher Education Council, and the

university’s International Study Programs. Dr. Mueller was recently awarded

the 2018 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Founder’s Award for his immense

contribution to furthering the public’s understanding of the citizen soldier and

the military’s role in a democracy. Mueller’s book, Everything We Have on the

D-Day invasion will be released in March 2019.


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MICHAEL NEIBERG, PhD

Michael Neiberg, PhD, is the Professor of History

and Chair of War Studies in the Department of

National Security and Strategy at the United

States Army War College. His published work

specializes on the First and Second World Wars

in global context. The Wall Street Journal named

his Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak

of World War I one of the five best books ever

written about that war. He is also the author of

The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris,

CATHAL NOLAN, PhD

Cathal Nolan, PhD, is Associate Professor of

History and Executive Director of the International

History Institute, Boston University. He is an

award-winning teacher and scholar of military and

international history. His Allure of Battle: A History

of How Wars are Won and Lost received the

Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History.

The $50,000 prize is co-sponsored by the Gilder

Lehrman Institute of American History and the

New York Historical Society. It “recognizes the

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1944 and Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe, both

published by Basic Books.

In October 2016 Oxford University Press published his Path to War, a history

of American responses to the Great War, 1914-1917, and in July 2017 Oxford

published his Concise History of the Treaty of Versailles. He is now at work on

a history of US involvement in the Middle East from 1942 to 1950.

best book on military history in the English-speaking world distinguished by its

scholarship, its contribution to the literature, and its appeal to both a general

and an academic audience.”

His other books include a two-volume Concise History of World War II, Wars

of the Age of Louis XIV, and a two-volume study of The Age of the Wars of

Religion. He consults on military history to the PBS series NOVA and various

other documentary films. He is currently writing Decency: Mercy and Honor in

War for Oxford University Press.

PATRICK K. O’DONNELL

Patrick K. O’Donnell is a bestselling, critically

acclaimed military historian and an expert on

elite units. He is the recipient of several national

awards and is the author of eleven books,

including: The Unknowns: The Untold Story of

America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most

Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home;

Washington’s Immortals; We Were One; and Dog

Company.

DAVID REYNOLDS, PhD David Reynolds, PhD, is Professor of International History and a Fellow of Christ’s College. He studied at Cambridge and Harvard Universities and has been a regular visitor to the United States since traveling here as a graduate student in 1973. He served for two academic years as Chairman of the Faculty of History in 2013-15. His visiting positions include posts at Harvard, Nihon University in Tokyo, and Sciences Po in Paris. He won the Wolfson Prize for History in 2004, and was elected a Fellow of the

O’Donnell has written seven books on World War II and has conducted thousands

of interviews with WWII veterans from elite, airborne, and special operations

units, amassing one of the largest private collections on the subject. He served

as a combat historian in a Marine rifle platoon during the Battle of Fallujah and

speaks often on espionage, special operations, and counterinsurgency. He has

provided historical consulting for DreamWorks’ award-winning miniseries Band

of Brothers and for scores of documentaries produced by the BBC, the History

Channel, Fox News, and Discovery. He is also a regular contributor to several

national publications and television shows.

British Academy in 2005 and a member of the Society of American Historians

in 2011.

He is the author of 11 books and four edited or co-edited volumes. In 2013 he published The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century, which was awarded the 2014 Hessell-Tiltman Prize. He has also written and presented 13 historical documentaries for BBC TV, ranging across the international history of the 20th century, including a three-part series for BBC2 Long Shadow based on his book, and a trilogy for BBC4 about the Big Three leaders of World War II. He also wrote and presented the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series America, Empire of Liberty (2008-9) and the 2016 two-part

series Verdun: The Sacred Wound.



ALEXANDRA RICHIE, DPhil

Alexandra Richie, DPhil, is a historian of

Germany and Central and Eastern Europe, with

a specialization in defense and security issues.

She completed her B.A. (Hons) in Political Science

at the University of Victoria and went on to study

at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, where she wrote

her doctoral thesis, “The Political Manipulation of

History in East and West Germany.”

Richie is also the author of Faust’s Metropolis:

ANDREW ROBERTS, PhD

Andrew Roberts, PhD, holds a first class honors

degree in Modern History at Gonville & Caius

College, Cambridge, from where he is an honorary

senior scholar and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

He is presently a Visiting Professor at the War

Studies Department at King’s College, London and

the Lehrman Institute Lecturer at the New-York

Historical Society.

He is the bestselling author of The Storm of War:

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A History of Berlin, which was named one of the top ten books of the year by

American Publisher’s Weekly, and Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw

Uprising, which won the Newsweek Teresa Torańska Prize for best non-fiction

book of 2014 and the Kazimierz Moczarski Prize for Best History Book 2015.

She has contributed to many articles, documentaries, radio, and television

programs, and is the Convener of the Presidential Counselors at The National

WWII Museum. She is also a member of the Senate at the Collegium Civitas

University in Warsaw, Poland, and the Władysław Bartoszewski co-chair of

History and International Studies at the Collegium Civitas.

A New History of the Second World War; Masters and Commanders: How

Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945; and Napoleon: A Life,

winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize for Biography. He has won many prizes,

including the Wolfson History Prize and the British Army Military Book Award.

He frequently writes for The Wall Street Journal, and is the Roger and Martha

Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

He lives in London and often lectures in New York.

JAMES M. SCOTT

James M. Scott, a former Nieman Fellow at

Harvard, is the author of Target Tokyo: Jimmy

Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor,

which was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist and was

named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus,

The Christian Science Monitor, and The Fort Worth

Star-Telegram.

His other works include The War Below: The Story

of Three Submarines that Battled Japan and The

HIROYUKI SHINDO

Hiroyuki Shindo is currently an assistant professor

in the Military History Department of the National

Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo and a Senior

Researcher at the Military History Division, Center

for Military History. His special areas of interest are

US-Japan diplomatic and military relations in the

1930s and 1940s, and the military history of the

Second World War.

Shindo received his LLB from Kyoto University and

Attack on the Liberty: The Story of the Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a US

Spy Ship, which won the Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Award. Scott’s

fourth book, Rampage, was released in October 2018.

In addition, Scott has been interviewed on national television, public radio,

and in newspapers ranging from The New York Times to The Washington

Post. Scott also was a featured presenter on the Smithsonian Channel’s

television series Hell Below.

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received his LLM from Kobe University in 1992. He is a graduate of

The Ohio State University’s PhD coursework program. He has contributed to

Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War and Australia 1944-1945: Victory in

the Pacific.



GEOFFREY WAWRO, PhD

Geoffrey Wawro, PhD, was educated at Brown

and Yale, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna. A

former professor of strategy & policy, and strategic

studies at the US Naval War College, Wawro is

now professor of history and director of the Military

History Center at the University of North Texas.

Wawro has authored six major books on modern

military, diplomatic, and strategic history, most

recently 2018’s Sons of Freedom: The Forgotten

American Soldiers who Defeated Germany in

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World War I. He serves as series editor of the Cambridge Military Histories,

as well as a commentator on current issues and their historical background

a.k.a. “applied history.”

He has anchored six shows for the History Channel – Hardcover History,

History’s Business, History in Focus, Global View, Hard Target, and History

vs. Hollywood – and has appeared regularly on History, Discovery, CNN, Fox,

American Heroes, Netflix, Smithsonian, Spike, and National Geographic.

REBECCA TAYLOR, PhD

Rebecca Taylor, PhD, has been a forensic

anthropologist with the Defense POW/MIA

Accounting Agency (DPAA) since 2012. Currently,

she is the Project Lead for the Tarawa Commingled

Human Remains Project and oversees a dedicated

team of six anthropologists who assist with the

identification of service members associated with

the Battle of Tarawa. She received her PhD and MA

in Anthropology from the University of Tennessee

and B.S. in Biology and Anthropology from Juniata College. She also serves as a scientific recovery expert for DPAA and has led

excavations on 14 missions worldwide.

Prior to working for DPAA, she was the Assistant Coordinator of the Forensic

Anthropology Center (FAC) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and was a

member of the Disaster Mortuary Response Team-WMD. Dr. Taylor has presented

research and has authored multiple journal articles and book chapters on a

variety of forensic anthropology-related topics. Her current research interests

include commingled human remains analysis, forensic taphonomy, postmortem

interval estimation, and skeletal biology. HAROLD “HAL” WINTON, PhD

Harold “Hal” Winton, PhD, was commissioned

from the United States Military Academy in 1964

and went on to serve twenty-five years in the

Army Infantry, including two combat tours in

Vietnam and command of a mechanized infantry

battalion and military sub-community in Germany.

He received his PhD in History from Stanford

University in 1977, and then held multiple teaching

assignments including USMA Department

of History, Combined Arms & Services Staff

School, and School of Advanced Military Studies, where he was a Founding

Faculty Member.

Winton became founding faculty member of USAF’s School of Advanced

Air and Space Studies in 1990 where he has served as Professor of Military

History and Theory. He has directed over fifty master’s theses and conducted

staff rides to Normandy, the Ardennes, the Mediterranean, and Vietnam.

His major publications include: To Change an Army: General Sir John

Burnett-Stuart and British Armored Doctrine, 1927-1938 and Corps

Commanders of the Bulge: Six American Generals and Victory in the

Ardennes, which received the Army Historical Foundation’s award for best

operational history of 2007. Winton’s current project is on the Army Corps

Commanders of the Pacific.

GERHARD WEINBERG, PhD

Gerhard Weinberg, PhD, is an internationally

recognized authority on Nazi Germany and the

origins and course of World War II, and also

Professor Emeritus of History at the University

of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He is the author or editor of numerous books

and articles on twentieth-century European and

world history. His books include A World At Arms:

A Global History of World War II; Visions of

Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders; Hitler’s Second Book: The

Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf; Hitler’s Foreign Policy 1933-1939: The

Road to World War II; and Germany, Hitler, and World War II: Essays in Modern

German and World History. He is the 2009 recipient of the Pritzker Military

Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing,

and currently sits on the Museum’s Presidential Counselors advisory board.

Why a Military Library?

Colonel (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired), founder of the Pritzker

Military Museum & Library, assembled a major collection of books and

related materials on military history, with a particular focus on the concept

of the Citizen Soldier in America. Today, building upon that foundation through

the generosity of private donors, the Pritzker Military Museum & Library has

become a non-partisan museum and library that attempts to increase the

public understanding of military history and the sacrifices made by the men

and women who have served.

In a democratic society, it is important for people of all viewpoints to have

an open, public forum to discuss the past, present, and future of the military.

Through its collection and its programs, the Museum & Library is dedicated

to serving as a forum for those discussions and preserving them for future

generations. Since opening in 2003, the Museum & Library has hosted more

than 500 events featuring the country’s most acclaimed authors, historians,

journalists, and scholars.

OUR MISSION

The Mission of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library is to acquire

and maintain an accessible collection of materials and to develop

appropriate programs focusing on the citizen soldier in the

preservation of democracy.

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EXCLUSIVE LAND PROGRAMS

Victory in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, and the 74th Commemoration of Iwo Jima Featuring Richard Frank and Jonathan ParshallMarch 15 – 25, 2019

Easy Company: England to the Eagle’s Nest Featuring original Band of Brothers cast membersMay 1 – 13, 2019; June 10 – 22, 2019; June 24 – July 6, 2019;September 23 – October 5, 2019; September 28 – October 10, 2019

Battle of the BulgeFeaturing Roland GaulSeptember 1 – 7, 2019; December 12 – 21, 2019 (75th Anniversary Commemorative Tour)

D-Day: Invasion of Normandy and Liberation of France September 12 – 18, 2019; September 19 – 25, 2019

The Rise & Fall of Hitler’s Germany Featuring Alexandra Richie, DPhilMay 18 – 29, 2019; September 8 – 19, 2019

Masters of the Air: The Mighty Eighth Over the Skies of Europe Featuring Donald L. Miller, PhDSeptember 13 – 20, 2019

Soldiers and SpiesFeaturing Alex KershawSeptember 30 – October 6, 2019

ONE-OF-A-KIND CRUISE PROGRAMS

East Meets West: The Link-up on the ElbeAboard CroisiEurope MS Elbe PrincesseFeaturing Alexandra Richie, DPhil and Peter Caddick-Adams, PhDApril 11 – 19, 2019

75th Anniversary of D-Day – Aboard Seabourn OvationFeaturing John McManus, PhD, Michael Neiberg, PhD, James Holland, Richard Frank, Col. Ian Hope, PhD, and Kara Dixon Vuic, PhDMay 29 – June 7, 2019

Philosophy and War: World War II in the Balkans – Aboard Sea Cloud IFeaturing Robert M. Citino, PhDSeptember 24 – October 2, 2019

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audience through: conferences, symposia, and our longstanding Meet the Author series; leadership programs; publications; higher education

courses; a Historical Research Services program to assist members of the public in learning more about their loved one’s wartime service; and

collaboration with the federal Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), marshaling the Museum’s resources to help locate and identify

the remains of missing WWII servicemen and women.

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