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About Bob Wintermute
Bob Wintermute is professor of history at Queens College, CUNY.
NBN Episodes hosted by Bob:
Military History
January 18, 2021
Britain's War
A New World, 1942-1947
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 with the event Winston Churchill called …
Military History
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 story of how the Allied force …
Military History
November 18, 2020
Small Boats and Daring Men
Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy
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 engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding …
American Studies
August 14, 2019
Beyond the Beach
The Allied War Against France
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 concern or regard for collateral …
American Studies
June 13, 2019
Implacable Foes
War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
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 study of the conflict’s last two years …
American Studies
March 6, 2019
Progressives in Navy Blue
Maritime Strategy, American Empire, and the Transformation of U.S. Naval Identity, 1873-1898
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 strategy. Institutional …
American Studies
January 18, 2019
General Lesley J. McNair
Unsung Architect of the U.S. Army
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 historical writing. Perhaps one of the best …
American Studies
January 10, 2019
Soldiers of the Nation
Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952
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 society played important roles in the evolution …
American Studies
October 29, 2018
The Other Space Race
Eisenhower and the Quest for Aerospace Security
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, Sputnik I, into orbit. This …
American Studies
August 1, 2018
Bigger Bombs for a Brighter Tomorrow
The Strategic Air Command and American War Plans at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1945-1950
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 it was prepared to …
American Studies
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 History to talk about his book, Love …
American Studies
May 4, 2018
Omar Nelson Bradley
America’s GI General, 1893-1981
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 (University of Missouri Press, 2017). Following the suggestion …
American Studies
April 13, 2018
The Road Not Taken
Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
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 Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam …
American Studies
February 9, 2018
Westmoreland's War
Reassessing America's Strategy in Vietnam
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 of popular retellings of old …
American Studies
August 6, 2017
Back Over There
One American Time-Traveler, 100 Years Since the Great War, 500 Miles of Battle-Scarred French Countryside, and Too Many Trenches, Shells, Legends, and Ghosts to Count
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 authors seeking to present a particular campaign, organization …
American Studies
February 28, 2017
The Path to War
How the First World War Created Modern America
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 background of war fever in the United …
American Studies
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 National Park Service. Marc Blackburn is the author …
American Studies
October 13, 2016
Storm Over Leyte
The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy
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 the US Seventh Fleets escort carriers, Task …
American Studies
July 25, 2016
Forty-Seven Days
How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I
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 forensic archivist Mitchell Yockelson reappraises …
December 18, 2015
Carolina in Crisis
Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southwest, 1756-1763
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 resurgence as a new generation of military historians employ a variety …
American Studies
October 6, 2015
Paying with Their Bodies
American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran
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 evocative book, Paying …
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 Salvation (Routledge, 2014). Denton-Borhaug considers how sacrificial rhetoric has …
History
April 25, 2015
Twenty-First-Century Mahan and Twenty-First-Century Sims
Benjamin Armstrong
Hosted by Bob Wintermute
Alfred Thayer Mahan and William Sims - two of the most important figures in American Naval History - are the subject of our discussion with Lieutenant Commander Benjamin ("BJ") Armstrong …
Military History
February 17, 2015
The West Point History of the Civil War
Colonel Ty Seidule
Hosted by Bob Wintermute
We're very fortunate to be joined by the editor of The West Point History of the Civil War (Simon and Schuster, 2014), the Head of the History Department at the …
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