Join Brian and Bill as they chat with Rob Citino, the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Dr. Citino earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University and is an award-winning scholar of German military history and World War II, who has published numerous books, including The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943, Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942, and The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich, as well as numerous articles covering World War II and 20th-century military history. His book awards include the New York Symposium on Military History's Arthur Goodzeit Prize and the American Historical Association's Birdsall Prize. He has twice been honored with the Distinguished Book Award by the Society for Military History. Dr. Citino has taught at Eastern Michigan University (where in 2007 ratemyprofessor.com named him the "Number 1 Professor in the Country") and the University of North Texas, and has also held the Charles Boal Ewing Visiting Chair in Military History at the US Military Academy and the prestigious General Harold K. Johnson Chair of Military History and Strategy at the US Army War College. In 2021, the Society for Military History awarded Dr. Citino its Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for Scholarly Achievement.
We'll talk to Rob about how one gets from Cleveland to Bloomington, Indiana, why the Wermacht, becoming a minor MTV celebrity, being the senior historian at the fabulous National World War II Museum in New Orleans, and playing guitar and buying vinyl records. Join us!
Rec. 10/26/2021
