Not Even Past
New Perspectives on American History
THOMAS CHILDERS, in conversation with Bruce Kuklick, discusses his book Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation’s Troubled Homecoming from World War II.
Thomas Childers, the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History, is an internationally recognized expert on the Third Reich and the Second World War. He recently completed a popular trilogy on themes related to the war: Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany in World War II, In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot’s Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany and Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming from World War II
Bruce Kuklick is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History. He is a scholar of the political, diplomatic and intellectual history of the United States. The author of 10 books, his most recent books are Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War From Kennan to Kissinger and the biography Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine. A new title, One Nation Under God, is scheduled for publication this year.
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