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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 21st, 8pm ET

Mark Stille

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

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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 4th, 8pm ET

Eric Setzekorn

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

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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 19th, 8pm ET

Christopher A Lawrence

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

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

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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 1st, 8pm ET

Hamilton Bean

Nimitz’s Newsman: Waldo Drake and the Navy’s Censored War in the Pacific

April 8th, 8pm ET

Stephen M. Rusiecki

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

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

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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 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

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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