Pritzker Military Museum & Library Podcasts

Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital is a first-hand account of seven months with a Marine Corps surgical company, immersed in Iraq, earth-shaking artillery rounds, and the all-encompassing desert.

John Callaway and his guests as they analyze the status of the War on Terror on "Front & Center."

Five foot six was too short for the Marines in the fall of 1942, and barely tall enough a few months later; on the island of Iwo Jima, with the American forces taking heavy casualties and unable to advance beyond the beach, five foot six was a towering height.

Forrest Bryant Johnson was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated from the University of Louisville with degrees in chemistry and psychology before serving for nine years in the U.S. Army.

Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea: The Forgotten War of the South Pacific tells the long-overlooked story of the Buna Trail campaign, which sent an Army National Guard division from Wisconsin and Michigan to New...

Leadership came naturally to the young Kansas native, newly promoted to Staff Sergeant on the eve of the landing at Normandy. He had, after all, a perfect model: his older brother Roland, who would be landing with the second wave, right behind him.

Wars of Blood and Faith collects seventy-eight columns written by Peters for the New York Post, Washington Monthly and other publications.

Julie M. Fenster's The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder and the Making of a Great President finds the 16th President in his formative years, as a lawyer building a practice from difficult cases like debt collection and the dregs of the...

For all of the money and development hours that go into best-selling video games, the virtual world still hasn't caught up with what Patrick Brady did with a real-life medevac helicopter in Chu Lai, Vietnam - amazing feats that earned him the nation's highest...

The September 2007 visit of Iran's president, Dr. Ahmadinejad, to the United States has brought U.S. relations with Iran into sharp focus. Iran''s relationship with Iraq and role in the Middle East is complex.

Joseph Persico entered the U.S. Navy in 1952, serving as Lt. j.g. aboard a minesweeper and also with NATO Headquarters in Naples, Italy. He later became a Foreign Service Officer for the United States Information Agency in Argentina, Brazil, and Washington.

In his extraordinary new book, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, Hampton Sides brings the conquest of the West to vivid life. At the center of the narrative stands the legendary Kit Carson.

In What This Cruel War Was Over, Chandra Manning reveals the voices of the soldiers of the Union and the Confederacy. Her exhaustive research, using countless diaries, letters, and regimental newsletters, follows in the footsteps of James McPherson.

The Day of Battle is not a book of strategy and tactics - it is a book of the real people whose lives were swallowed up in the conflict, and the heart-wrenching losses that came hand-in-hand with every triumph.

James M. McPherson was born in North Dakota and grew up in Minnesota, where he attended Gustavus Adolphus College and graduated magna cum laude in 1958. He did his graduate study in history at the Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. with...