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RecentGreatest Events of World War II in Colour. Episode 5, Siege of Stalingrad. I'm one of the "talking heads" in this episode. New episodes are in the works for 2021; I was interviewed for episodes on the Battle of Kursk and the Battle of Berlin.
"Marina Raskova and Jackie Cochran: A Study in Leadership," the International Women’s Air & Space Museum, Cleveland, OH. A video may be available soon. (September 2021)
"The Third Period of the War: 1 January 1944 – 23 May 1945," The Pritzker Military Museum and Library On War Military History Symposium (virtual, 2021)
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‘Talking History’ special on The Battle of Stalingrad for Irish Radio (2021)
listen to the podcast
"The Night Witches," for the history podcast (UK), "Not What You Thought You Knew" (2020)
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A talk I gave at the National WWII Museum on Operation Bagration, the 1944 Soviet Summer Offensive, a simultaneous offensive with D-Day. My portion starts at 24:40 and lasts about 25 minutes. The first part is David Stahel's excellent talk on the German side; the last part is Q&A. (2019)
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"Male and Female Heroism in the European Bombing War", Humboldt University, Berlin (January 2019)
Presentation at the Society for Military History annual conference, Louisville, KY:
"Scorched Earth as Tactic and Strategy: the Russian experience” (2018)
"What Russia Can Teach Us about War" for The New York Military Affairs Symposium, NYC (2018)
listen to the podcast
"Was The Russian Military A Steamroller? From World War II To Today," for War on the Rocks (2016)
read the essay
"The Red Army, 1922-1945," in The Impact of Military Organizational Culture on Security in the Modern World, ed. Pete Mansoor and Williamson Murray, Cambridge University Press (2019)
Upcoming
Presentation at the Society for Military History annual conference
"Winter War: the Russian experience” (April 2022)
In the works
Book: What Russia Can Teach Us About War
Article: "The Death of Lidiia Litviak: Rumor, Hearsay, and Evidence about the Death of the World's First Female Fighter Ace,” examines the evidence concerning Litviak's last flight, whether she bailed out or crash-landed, whether she survived after August 1, 1943, the search for her remains, the role of the NKVD in perpetuating suspicion and rumors, and official identification of her remains and award of the Hero of the Soviet Union in 1990.