Pritzker Military Museum & Library Podcasts

James Carl Nelson has worked as a staff writer for the Miami Herald. He is a member of the Great War Society and the Military Writers Society of America. He lives with his wife and two sons in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Tanya Biank is a Fulbright scholar, journalist, and syndicated columnist. She is a contributing writer to several military-related publications. She lives at Fort Stewart, Georgia with her young son Jack. Her husband, Lt. Col. Michael Marti.

Shadow of the Sword is the story of Workman’s combat experience, both as it happened in 2004 and how it lives within him today in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Germany 1945 is a collection of scenes from a year of cataclysm, one which saw the total collapse of the Third Reich; in Bessel’s estimation, no country had ever been more thoroughly defeated in modern world history.

Last Journey: A Father Son in Wartime

Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March & Its Aftermath

For more than 65 years, he has carried a message wherever he goes. In World War II, the messages were between the command post and the front lines. Since then, the message has been from a generation of veterans to all who have followed in their footsteps:...

The Gamble: General David Petraeus & the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006 - 2008

Shortly after the attacks of September 11th, 2001, the Special Forces were sent to Afghanistan. Moving in troops for a full-scale invasion might have taken up to six months; as the lead element in the war, the Special Forces' mission was to make it happen...

Michael Pearlman retired in 2006 as a professor of history at the United States Army Command and General Staff College. He is also the author of Warmaking and American Democracy: The Struggle Over Military Strategy, 1700 to the Present.

Del Calzo's striking black-and-white photographs accompany each profile in Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty, which is published by the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation. Each portrait aches with experience and a story of heroism...

Kilcullen has worked as an officer and military adviser on the ground in hotspots ranging from East Africa to the jungles of the Philippines. In 2007, he served as Senior Counterinsurgency Adviser to Gen. David Petraeus during the planning and implementation...

Beyond Pearl Harbor is a personal view of the war from the Japanese side, from a pilot's feelings about the Zero itself (superb maneuverability, but poor protection for the pilot) and training methods of the Imperial Japanese Navy (a solid whack to the back...

General Curtis LeMay was a monster, a belligerent and remorseless murderer. He was a patriot of the first order, a forward-thinking visionary who created the U.S. Air Force as we know it.

In Wired for War, P.W. Singer explores how robotic systems have already changed military operations. He visits pilots who fly missions in Iraq from cubicles in the United States, using unmanned drones, and then drive home for dinner. And he talks to the makers...