Pritzker Literature Award winners David Hackett Fischer, Rick Atkinson, Gerhard Weinberg, Allan Millett, and Antony Beevor are featured in this special episode of Pritzker Military Presents, with highlights of their discussions on the American Revolution,...

Internationally acclaimed author and World War II historian Antony Beevor, recipient of the 2014 Pritzker Literature Award, returns to the Museum & Library to share his latest bestseller—a history of the Battle of the Bulge that brings realism to the battlefield...

Renowned author and academic Allan Millett discusses the history and heritage of the U.S. Marine Corps with fellow Marine Eric Kirsch, a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. As part of the 2015 ON WAR Military History Symposium, this program was made...

As a young man, returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam, he began writing an epic novel about the war he experienced and the way that combat changes people. More than thirty years later, his work is done. Matterhorn draws from Karl Marlantes’ experience...

As a young man, returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam, he began writing an epic novel about the war he experienced and the way that combat changes people. More than thirty years later, his work is done. Matterhorn draws from Karl Marlantes’ experience...

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In 1943, at seventeen years of age, Becton enlisted to fight in World War II. Though his youth in the suburbs of Philadelphia had been rife with the effects of Jim Crow, he found an opportunity to prove what he could do. After the end of the war, however,...

In 1943, at seventeen years of age, Becton enlisted to fight in World War II. Though his youth in the suburbs of Philadelphia had been rife with the effects of Jim Crow, he found an opportunity to prove what he could do. After the end of the war, however,...