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God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless. -Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

WWIIDF

eisenhower & rangers

World War II Discussion Forum

Winter & Spring 2025 Semester
All lectures are free, virtual and open to the public.
Please click on title to purchase book.

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January 7th, 8pm ET

Shannon Monaghan

A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II

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January 14th, 8pm ET

James Ellman

Communiques of General MacArthur: Pacific Campaigns, July 1942-February 1945

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January 25th, 1pm ET

Richard Overy

Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan

February 1st, 1pm ET

Keith Lowe

Naples 1944: The Devil's Paradise at War

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February 8th, 1pm ET

Katherine Carter

Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm

February 15th, 1pm ET

Arthur Gullachsen

The Defeat and Attrition of the 12 SS Panzer Division

February 25th, 8pm ET

Donald Nijboer

Graphic War: The Secret Aviation Drawings and Illustrations of World War II

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March 4th, 8pm ET

Bill Ramsey

Wake Island Wildcat: A Marine Fighter Pilot's Epic Battle at the Beginning of World War II

March 21st, 8pm ET

Brian Walsh

The "Rape" of Japan: The Myth of Mass Sexual Violence during the Allied Occupation

March 25th, 8pm ET

Ben Powers

Never a Dull Moment: The 80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion in World War II

April 15th, 8pm ET

Michael Zang

Guest of Adolf: The War of SSG Ernest V. Focht, 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion

April 22nd, 8pm ET

Michael Fink

Intrepid's Fighting Squadron 18: Flying High with Harris' Hellcats

May 6th, 8pm ET

Peter Harmsen

Fury and Ice: Greenland, the United States and Germany in World War II

May 13th, 8pm ET

Tom Ramos

From Berkeley to Berlin: How the Rad Lab Helped Avert Nuclear War

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January 21st, 8pm ET

Mark Stille

Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle

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February 4th, 8pm ET

Eric Setzekorn

Uncertain Allies: General Joseph Stilwell and the China-Burma-India Theater

February 19th, 8pm ET

Christopher A Lawrence

Aces at Kursk: The Battle for Aerial Supremacy on the Eastern Front, 1943

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March 11th, 8pm ET

David Kohnen

King’s Navy: The U.S. Navy of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, 1897-1947

April 8th, 8pm ET

Stephen M. Rusiecki

Invasion On: D-Day, the Press, and the Making of an American Narrative

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April 29th, 8pm ET

Elyse Graham

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

May 20th, 8pm ET

Brett L. Walker

Yukikaze's War: The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific

"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." - Leon Trotsky

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