International Journal of Naval History

Metro Washington D.C.

Military Classics Seminar 

Books and Speakers for 2003-2004

Fort Meyer Officer’s Club, Tuesdays, 5:30 pm.

16 September: Boot, Max. Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. New York: Basic Books, 2002. 

Speaker: Dr. Gary D. Solis, Marine Corps Historical Center

21 October: Bloch, Marc. Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940, translated by G. Hopkins. Norton, 1968 and Ernest R. May. Strange Victory: Hitler’s Conquest of France. Hill & Wang, 2000.

Speaker: Dr. Jennie Kiesling, U.S. Military Academy

18 November: Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. New York: Henry Holt, 2002.

Speaker: Dr. Alexander S. Cochran, Army War College

20 January: Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord. War Diaries, 1939-1945: Field Marshal LordAlanbrooke. Berkeley, CA: Alex Danchev & Daniel Todman (eds.) 2001.

Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey G. Barlow, Naval Historical Center

17 February: Catton, Bruce. This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War.New York: Doubleday, 1956. 

Speaker: Dr. Craig L. Symonds, U.S. Naval Academy

16 March: Parker, Geoffrey. Military Revolution, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West,1500-1800. New York: Cambridge, 1988/2000 and John Guilmartin. Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the 16 ^th Century. New York: Cambridge, 1974/2003.

Speaker: Dr. John A. Lynn, University of Illinois

20 April: Bourke, John G. On the Border with Crook. University of Nebraska Press, 1971.

Speaker:  Dr. Perry D. Jamieson, U.S. Air Force Historical Office

18 May: Leach, Douglas. Arms for Empire: A Military History of the British Colonies in North America, 1607-1763. New York: Macmillan, 1973.

Speaker: Dr. Reginald C. Stuart, Mount Saint Vincent University

15 June:  Biddle, Tami Davis. Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of Britishand American Ideas About Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Speaker: Dr. Thomas Julian (Colonel, USAF (Ret.))