Featured Speaker

Dr. Geoffrey Wawro

Dr. Wawro received his BA from Brown and his PhD from Yale University, and is the author of six books.  His most recent book is SONS OF FREEDOM: THE FORGOTTEN AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO DEFEATED GERMANY IN WORLD WAR I (Basic, 2018).  He has also written A MAD CATASTROPHE: THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR I and THE COLLAPSE OF THE HABSBURG EMPIRE (Basic, 2014); QUICKSAND: AMERICA'S PURSUIT OF POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST (Penguin, 2010); THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR: THE GERMAN CONQUEST OF FRANCE IN 1870-71 (Cambridge, 2003); WARFARE AND SOCIETY IN EUROPE 1792-1914 (Routledge, 2000); and THE AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN WAR: AUSTRIA'S WAR WITH PRUSSIA AND ITALY IN 1866 (Cambridge, 1996).  Dr. Wawro appears regularly on The History Channel and other networks like Smithsonian and American Heroes Channel, and is the co-editor of the Cambridge Military Histories.  The title of Dr. Wawro's talk was "How the U.S. Army Won World War I.”
 
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