Point of the Spear | Military History with Robert Child

Join Robert Child for a conversation with Prit Butter, author of The Reckoning: The Defeat of Amy Group South, 1944. Buttar has written extensively on the Eastern front in both WWI and WWII. He is a former doctor and astro-photographer and resides in Scotland (UK).

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Join Robert Child for a conversation with Patrick Bishop, author of Operation Jubilee Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice. Bishop spent twenty-five years as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts around the world. He is the author of two hugely acclaimed books about the Royal Air Force in the Second World War and is a Sunday Times bestselling author. 

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Join Robert Child for a conversation with Myke Cole, author of The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy. Cole’s career has run the gamut from Coun­tert­er­rorism to Cyber War­fare to Fed­eral Law Enforce­ment. He’s done three tours in Iraq and was recalled to serve during the Deep­water Horizon oil spill. 

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Join Robert Child in November on Point of the Spear when he welcomes several great guests including author Don Hollway, filmmaker Rylan Soref, Colonel Keith Nightingale, and more.

Join Robert Child for a conversation with Robert Laplander, author of Finding the Lost Battalion: Beyond the Myths and Legends of America’s Famous WWI Epic. Laplander’s research into the ‘Lost Battalion’ of the 77th Division spans 20 years and is by far the most extensive ever done in their regard. This first week of October mark’s the 103rd anniversary of that heroic engagement.

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Join Robert Child for part-two and the conclusions of a conversation with Dr. Allen Guelzo, author of Robert E. Lee: A Life. Allen is Senior Research Scholar at the Council of Humanities at Princeton University and the author of several books about the Civil War and early nineteenth-century American history. Guelzo has been the recipient of the Lincoln Prize three times, the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize for Military History, and many other honors. 

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Join Robert Child for a part one of a two-part conversation with Dr. Allen Guelzo, author of Robert E. Lee: A Life. Allen is Senior Research Scholar at the Council of Humanities at Princeton University and the author of several books about the Civil War and early nineteenth-century American history. Guelzo has been the recipient of the Lincoln Prize three times, the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize for Military History, and many other honors. 

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Join Robert Child in October on Point of the Spear when he welcomes several great guests including Robert Laplander, Prit Butar, Myke Cole, and more.

Join Robert Child for conversation with Don Milne the founder of the nonprofit initiative Stories Behind the Stars. A lifelong history buff, he started a blog after the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor in 2016 to honor individual and mostly forgotten World War II fallen by writing short obituaries about them. Over the next four years, his WW2 Fallen 100 blog resulted in more than 1,200 stories and was read more than 1.5 million times. More than 1,300 people involved in the Stories Behind the Stars project have written nearly 10,000 accounts, including every story of the fallen from one state (Utah) and stories about every D-Day soldier lost on the first day at Normandy.

Join Robert Child for conversation with Tim Gray, founder, and president of the nonprofit World War II Foundation. The organization honors the legacy of the veterans and survivors of one of history’s most crucial periods by producing educational documentary films (29 to date) with several more in post-production). These documentaries air on television networks around the world via American Public Television. Each of their films range from 60 to 90 minutes in length. They make these documentaries available for free to educators, students, and the public. Their goal is to preserve these important stories for current and future generations.