Military History Symposium: Gerhard Weinberg: Big Men of WWII

Moderated by Dr. John Allen Williams, who joins one of America's foremost WWII scholars, Gerhard Weinberg, for an in-depth discussion on the major players in WWII, and the effect each had on the war that changed the world.

Gerhard Weinberg was born in Hanover, Germany where he and his family lived for ten years. His family immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938 in response to the persecution they faced as Jews in Nazi Germany. In 1941, Weinberg immigrated to the United States where he became a U.S. citizen and served in the Army from 1946 to 1947. Today, Weinberg is the prize-winning author of numerous books and articles on WWII, including A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Since 1974, he has been the William Rand Jr. Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
    
John Allen ("Jay") Williams is a Professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago, and holds degrees from Grinnell College (BA) and the University of Pennsylvania (MA and PhD). His writings include works on military strategy, military forces and missions, military culture, professional military education, and strategic policy. Dr. Williams' latest academic books are The Postmodern Military: Armed Forces After the Cold War and U.S. National Security: Policymakers, Processes, and Politics. He is editor of The National Strategy Forum Review and a retired captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve.