About the Episode
Jonathan Parshall discusses his long-awaited new book, 1942: Crux of War, in conversation with Rob Citino, PhD. Parshall’s book looks at this pivotal year of World War II, weighing the balance of forces arrayed by the Axis and Allied powers, the nature of their war machines, and the personalities of those driving them.
Topics Covered in this Episode:
- Stalingrad
- Guadalcanal
- Battle of Midway
Jonathan Parshall
Jonathan Parshall is co-author of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. His work has been published in the US Naval War College Review, US Naval Institute Proceedings, Naval History Magazine, and WWII magazine. A lecturer for the US Naval War College, Parshall is a frequent speaker at museums. He is also co-host of YouTube’s The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War and has appeared on the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, History Channel, Smithsonian, the BBC, and Netflix. He and his family live in Minneapolis.
Robert Citino, PhD
Robert Citino, PhD, is the former Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian in the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. Dr. Citino is an award-winning military historian and scholar who has published 11 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, and numerous articles covering World War II and 20th-century military history.
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