Citizen Soldier: War and Society

Renowned military historians and past Pritzker Literature Award recipients, Peter Paret and Gerhard Weinberg, discuss the interdependent relationship between war and society.

PETER PARET is a graduate of London University, the Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, a member of the American Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the Leo Baeck Institute for German-Jewish History.

A recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Medal of the American Philosophical Society and the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany, Paret is a distinguished scholar across subjects, disciplines, and international boundaries. Paret is also a WWII veteran having served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theater.

GERHARD L. WEINBERG, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he has served on the faculty since 1974. A German expatriate and veteran of the U.S. Army during the post-WWII occupation of Japan, Dr. Weinberg is an internationally recognized authority on the origins and course of World War II, earning the 2009 Pritzker Literature Award for his writings on the subject. Among his most notable works are A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II, Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders, and Germany, Hitler, and World War II