About Bob Wintermute

Bob Wintermute is professor of history at Queens College, CUNY.

NBN Episodes hosted by Bob:

Ty Seidule, "Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)

March 2, 2021

Robert E. Lee and Me

Ty Seidule
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

Almost right after the guns fell silent, a counter-factual and ultimately pernicious narrative of the Civil War took shape that proved to be one of th…

Daniel Todman, "Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947" (Oxford UP, 2020)

January 18, 2021

Britain's War

Daniel Todman
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

The second of Daniel Todman's two sweeping volumes on Great Britain and World War II, Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 (Oxford UP, 2020), begins …

Peter Hart, "The Gallipoli Evacuation" (Living History, 2020)

December 22, 2020

The Gallipoli Evacuation

Peter Hart
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

One of the most well-told episodes of the First World War, the 1915 Gallipoli expedition, also has its own long-ignored aspects - specifically, the st…

Benjamin F. Armstrong, "Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)

November 18, 2020

Small Boats and Daring Men

Benjamin F. Armstrong
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were already…

Stephen Alan Bourque, "Beyond the Beach: The Allied War Against France" (Naval Institute Press, 2018)

August 14, 2019

Beyond the Beach

Stephen Alan Bourque
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

Did the Allied bombing plan for the liberation of France follow a carefully orchestrated plan, or was it executed on an ad-hoc basis with little conce…

Marc Gallicchio and Waldo Heinrich, "Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945" (Oxford UP, 2017)

June 13, 2019

Implacable Foes

Marc Gallicchio and Waldo Heinrich
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

Serious and casual scholars and readers interested in the Pacific War would do well to commit reading Marc Gallicchio’s and Waldo Heinrich’s massive s…

Scott Mobley, "Progressives in Navy Blue: Maritime Strategy, American Empire, and the Transformation of U.S. Naval Identity, 1873-1898" (Naval Institute Press, 2018)

March 6, 2019

Progressives in Navy Blue

Scott Mobley
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

This episode of the New Books in Military History podcast is something of a sea change, so to speak, as we turn our attention to naval policy and stra…

Mark T. Calhoun, "General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the U.S. Army" (UP of Kansas, 2018)

January 18, 2019

General Lesley J. McNair

Mark T. Calhoun
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

Even now, eighty years after its beginning in Europe, the Second World War continues to exert tremendous cultural and social influence on American his…

Harry Franqui-Rivera, "Soldiers of the Nation: Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)

January 10, 2019

Soldiers of the Nation

Harry Franqui-Rivera
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

As the island of Puerto Rico transitioned from Spanish to U.S. imperial rule, the military and political mobilization of popular sectors of its societ…

N. M. Sambaluk, "The Other Space Race: Eisenhower and the Quest for Aerospace Security" (Naval Institute Press, 2015)

October 29, 2018

The Other Space Race

Nicholas Michael Sambaluk
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

Many people place the beginning of the American space program at 7:28pm, October 4, 1957 – the moment the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, S…

John M. Curatola, "Bigger Bombs for a Brighter Tomorrow: The Strategic Air Command and American War Plans at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1945-1950" (McFarland, 2016)

August 1, 2018

Bigger Bombs for a Brighter Tomorrow

John M. Curatola
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

Conventional wisdom has long held the position that between 1945 and 1949, not only did the United States enjoy a monopoly on atomic weapons, but that…

Andrew J. Huebner, "Love and Death in the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2018)

June 26, 2018

Love and Death in the Great War

Andrew J. Huebner
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

Coincident with the hundredth anniversary of the first American engagements in the First World War, Andrew J. Huebner joins New Books in Military Hist…

Steven L. Ossad, "Omar Nelson Bradley: America’s GI General, 1893-1981" (U Missouri Press, 2017)

May 4, 2018

Omar Nelson Bradley

Steven L. Ossad
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

Steven L. Ossad joins New Books at Military History to talk about his award-winning biography, Omar Nelson Bradley: America’s GI General, 1893-1981 (U…

Max Boot, "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam" (Liveright, 2018)

April 13, 2018

The Road Not Taken

Max Boot
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

Counterinsurgency doctrine, the Vietnam War, and the vagaries of politics all come together in Max Boot's latest work, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lans…

Gregory A. Daddis, "Westmoreland's War: Reassessing America's Strategy in Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2014)

February 9, 2018

Westmoreland's War

Gregory A. Daddis
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

In the wake of Ken Burns' most recent series, The Vietnam War, America's fascination with the conflict shows no sign of abating. Fortunately the flood…

Ricardo A. Herrera, "For Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen as Soldier, 1775-1861" (NYU Press, 2015)

October 17, 2017

For Liberty and the Republic

Ricardo A. Herrera
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

Citizenship, identity, and legitimacy are the cornerstones of Ricardo A. Herrera's book, For Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen as Soldier…

Richard Rubin, "Back Over There" (St. Martin's Press, 2017)

August 6, 2017

Back Over There

Richard Rubin
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

The majority of the books we profile on New Books in Military History are traditional research narratives, monographs written by historians and author…

Michael S. Neiberg, "The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America" (Oxford UP, 2016)

February 28, 2017

The Path to War

Michael S. Neiberg
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

In The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2016), acclaimed historian Michael Neiberg examines the …

Marc R. Blackburn, "Interpreting American Military History at Museums and Historical Sites" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)

November 28, 2016

Interpreting American Military History at Museums and Historical Sites

Marc R. Blackburn
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

Our guest for this interview combines his academic expertise in American military history with his professional experience as an employee of the Natio…

John Prados, "Storm Over Leyte: The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy" (NAL, 2016)

October 13, 2016

Storm Over Leyte

John Prados
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

Narratives of the Pacific War frequently examine the 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf from the operational perspective, focusing on the desperate actions of …

Mitchell Yockelson, "Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in WWI" (NAL Caliber, 2016)

July 25, 2016

Forty-Seven Days

Mitchell Yockelson
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

In Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I (NAL Caliber, 2016), National Archives historian and…

Daniel Tortora, "Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763" (UNC Press, 2015)

December 18, 2015

Carolina in Crisis

Daniel Tortora
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

Long viewed conventionally through the lens of inter-European/colonist conflict, warfare in colonial era North America is currently experiencing a res…

John Kinder, "Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran" (U Chicago Press, 2015)

October 6, 2015

Paying with Their Bodies

John Kinder
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

John Kinder brings to life the challenges and problems faced by the disabled veteran in American history from the Civil War to the current day in his …

Kelly Denton-Borhaug, "U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice, and Salvation" (Routledge, 2014)

August 19, 2015

U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice, and Salvation

Kelly Denton-Borhaug
Hosted by Bob Wintermute

More of a conversation than an interview, Kelly Denton-Borhaug shares the insights and processes underpinning her book U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice and…