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About Bob Wintermute
Bob Wintermute is professor of history at Queens College, CUNY.
NBN Episodes hosted by Bob:
August 31, 2024
Britain's War
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 …
August 10, 2024
The Gallipoli Evacuation
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…
March 2, 2021
Robert E. Lee and Me
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…
November 18, 2020
Small Boats and Daring Men
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…
August 14, 2019
Beyond the Beach
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…
June 13, 2019
Implacable Foes
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…
March 6, 2019
Progressives in Navy Blue
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…
January 18, 2019
General Lesley J. McNair
Even now, eighty years after its beginning in Europe, the Second World War continues to exert tremendous cultural and social influence on American his…
January 10, 2019
Soldiers of the Nation
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…
October 29, 2018
The Other Space Race
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…
August 1, 2018
Bigger Bombs for a Brighter Tomorrow
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…
June 26, 2018
Love and Death in the Great War
Coincident with the hundredth anniversary of the first American engagements in the First World War, Andrew J. Huebner joins New Books in Military Hist…
May 4, 2018
Omar Nelson Bradley
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…
April 13, 2018
The Road Not Taken
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…
February 9, 2018
Westmoreland's War
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…
October 17, 2017
For Liberty and the Republic
Citizenship, identity, and legitimacy are the cornerstones of Ricardo A. Herrera's book, For Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen as Soldier…
August 6, 2017
Back Over There
The majority of the books we profile on New Books in Military History are traditional research narratives, monographs written by historians and author…
February 28, 2017
The Path to War
In The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2016), acclaimed historian Michael Neiberg examines the …
November 28, 2016
Interpreting American Military History at Museums and Historical Sites
Our guest for this interview combines his academic expertise in American military history with his professional experience as an employee of the Natio…
October 13, 2016
Storm Over Leyte
Narratives of the Pacific War frequently examine the 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf from the operational perspective, focusing on the desperate actions of …
July 25, 2016
Forty-Seven Days
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…
December 18, 2015
Carolina in Crisis
Long viewed conventionally through the lens of inter-European/colonist conflict, warfare in colonial era North America is currently experiencing a res…
October 6, 2015
Paying with Their Bodies
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 …
August 19, 2015
U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice, and Salvation
More of a conversation than an interview, Kelly Denton-Borhaug shares the insights and processes underpinning her book U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice and…