Pritzker Military Museum & Library Podcasts

He went to Fort Campbell, Kentucky with orders to select and train a company of soldiers for service in Vietnam. Like most young company commanders, the 23 year old Paul Bucha was meticulous in his selections; however, for Bucha's company of "clerks and jerks",...

The Last Stand of Fox Company is the story of a small group of Marines charged with buying time for the rest of the First Division to withdraw. To do so, Fox Company would have to defend a narrow mountain pass overlooking the frigid Chosin Reservoir against...

Brenda Wineapple is the author and editor of five books, including the award-winning Hawthorne: A Life and Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The American Scholar, The New York Times Book Review, Parnassus,...

Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill & The Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her

In 1943, at seventeen years of age, Becton enlisted to fight in World War II. Though his youth in the suburbs of Philadelphia had been rife with the effects of Jim Crow, he found an opportunity to prove what he could do. After the end of the war, however,...

The First 100 Days: What Challenges Face the New Commander-in-Chief? 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? Join John Callaway...

For three years, it was a secret that Tom Norris had participated in one of the most difficult and dangerous rescues ever attempted in the Vietnam War. Since then, it's been no secret that this retired Navy SEAL has an incredible story to tell.

Traitor to His Class examines three eras of Roosevelt's life: the privileged child of the upper crust, the economic reformer of the New Deal, and the resolute leader of World War II. In the early days, everything seemed to go right for the charismatic Roosevelt,...

John Baker had been a gymnast in high school before he joined the Army. One day, near Tay Ninh Province in South Vietnam, he put the first lesson of gymnastics to pretty good use: if you fall down, get right back up and keep going.

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.

In 2006, a car bomb hit Dozier's news team on a street in Baghdad. Her cameraman and sound man were killed, as were their Army escort and Iraqi translator. The next time Dozier opened her eyes, she was in a hospital in Germany, and couldn't speak.

Reflecting now, Phillips regrets that "we failed to communicate with or understand the Vietnamese on a human level." Vietnam was lost, in Phillips' mind, for failure to give the Vietnamese people a political cause worth fighting for - and, in a review of today's...

Linda Robinson is the bestselling author of Masters of Chaos and author in residence at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies' Strategic Studies Program.

Carlo D'Este is a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and co-founder of the William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium, based at Norwich University. He is the author of Patton: A Genius for War and Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life 1890-1945, among other...

Inside the Stalin Archives reveals a modern Russia in which those citizens were, in a way, right. Today, more than 55 years after his death, Stalin remains an inescapable presence in Russia - not only in the slogans of extremist political groups, but also...