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Rob Havers and Todd DePastino interview – WWII history book – “Drawing Fire” (Pritzker Military Museum & Library, 2020)

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Rob Havers Todd DePastino Drawing FireRob Havers and Todd DePastino interview – WWII history book – “Drawing Fire” (Pritzker Military Museum & Library, 2020)

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Rob Havers is a British military historian who currently serves as the president of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library. Todd DePastino was a professor of social and cultural history and helped to write the book Drawing Fire about Bill Mauldin’s life and cartoons. We spoke about Bill Mauldin, his cartoons, and the Bill Mauldin exhibit.

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Interview Timeline

1:07 – Rob talks about how he got involved in a project on Bill Mauldin.

2:52 – Todd talks about how he started as a social and cultural historian before studying Bill Mauldin.

5:49 – Rob talks about how the Pritzker Museum collected thousands of Bill Mauldin’s cartoons.

8:31 – Rob and Todd talk about other archives that have some of Mauldin’s work and Mauldin’s influence.

9:49 – Todd talks about how they chose what cartoons to include in the book and Bill’s life up to and into WWII.

14:26 – Rob talks about the military history shown in Bill Mauldin’s cartoons.

18:20 – Todd talks about how Bill did his cartoon work during the war in Italy by going out to the front lines.

22:54 – Rob talks about how it was that an uneducated kid becomes such a master cartoonist.

24:56 – Todd talks about how ambitious and bad-tempered Bill Mauldin had been and how he got into cartooning.

27:48 – Todd talks about how Bill Mauldin got on to Stars & Stripes.

29:13 – Rob talks about the other hotspots Bill Mauldin worked in.

31:28 – Todd talks about Bill Mauldin’s knack for finding himself in hot spots.

33:13 – Rob talks about the National Infantry Museum and an exhibit there.

36:28 – Todd and Rob talk about Bill Mauldin being an adrenalin junkie.

40:12 – Todd talks about the Bill’s writing and oil painting attempts.

43:21 – Rob talks about Bill Mauldin’s ability to adapt his style to circumstances.

45:32 – Rob talks about how a military museum chooses its exhibits.

48:01 – Rob and Todd talk about how they got celebrities to write portions of the book including Tom Hanks and Tom Brokaw.

52:07 – Todd talks about the various traumas that Bill Mauldin dealt with throughout his life and in the war.

54:08 – Rob and Todd talk about the book’s goals.

57:57 – Rob talks about Bill Mauldin being involved with cartoonist organizations.

59:35 – Rob and Todd talk about getting the book finished and published.

1:00:08 – Rob talks about the books the museum publishes.

1:03:31 – The Pritzker Museum can be found at Pritzkermilitary.org and The Veterans Breakfast Club can be found at veteransbreakfastclub.org and “Scuttlebutt” podcast.

1:06:38 – From my podcast “Technology and Space” – John B. Herrington talks about going from naval aviation to becoming an astronaut. (TechnologyandSpace.com)

1:09:48 – From my podcast “Full Contact Nerd” – M.R. Carey talks about a military robot he put in his latest novel The Book of Koli. (FullContactNerd.com)

Links of interest

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http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/store/pmml-merchandise/drawing-fire-editorial-cartoons-bill-mauldin/

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https://veteransbreakfastclub.org/

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Guests: Rob Havers and Todd DiPastino

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Books, audio interviews, Rob Havers, Todd DePastino, academic, podcast, Pritzker Military Museum and Library, Modern War, WWII, United States,

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Dmitar Tasic interview about his WWI and 1920s military history book “Paramilitarism in the Balkans” (Oxford University Press, 2020)

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Dmitar Tasic interview about his WWI and 1920s military history book “Paramilitarism in the Balkans”

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Interview Timeline

Dmitar Tasic studies and teaches Balkan history. He’s recently published a book on his studies of the paramilitary groups that existed in Yugoslavia and surrounding regions during WWI and into the 1920s. We spoke about the subject and the book.

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0:45- Dmitar explains how he got interested in paramilitarism in the Balkans.

2:27 – Dmitar explains why the book covers 1917 to 1924.

6:01 – Dmitar defines paramilitary in this situation.

9:00 – Dmitar talks about the gear of paramilitary forces.

13:17 – Dmitar talks about the type of men who became paramilitaries.

16:04 – Dmitar talks about the organization of these groups and casualty numbers.

21:18 – Dmitar discusses how much democracy there was in these paramilitary organization.

25:42 – Dmitar talks about how Ottoman rule affected the development of these paramilitary forces.

31:00 – Dmitar talks about Ottoman reprisals against [the] uprisings.

33:17 – Dmitar talks how these groups were provided weapons and gear.

36:21 – Dmitar talks about what resources he used for his research.

38:07 – Dmitar talks about some of the research difficulties he had in his research because of the communist regimes.

42:24 – Dmitar talks about reading police reports about paramilitary events. He also discusses how these organizations were able to accommodate themselves with state support.

50:05 – Dmitar talks about the social activities of these groups.

54:55 – Dmitar talks about being impressed by their physical and mental strength.

1:04:33 – Dmitar can be found on academia.edu.

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Guests: Dmitar Tasic

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, academic, podcast, Oxford University Press, Modern War, 

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Geoffrey Plank interview about his 15th to 19th centuries military history book “Atlantic Wars” (Oxford University Press, 2020)

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Interview Summary

Geoffrey Plank has been a historian for many years focusing on Nova Scotia, Quakers, and now military history. He’s written an expansive review of warfare across the Atlantic from the 15th to 19th centuries. We talked about this period, the book, and the immense impact the slave trade had on the formation of the nations along the Atlantic seaboard and on warfare.

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0:40 – Geoffrey explains how he ended up writing an expansive book on Atlantic Wars.

2:02 – Geoffrey explains how he organized the book since it covers so much time and countries.

3:16 – Geoffrey talks about warfare at sea.

5:24 – Geoffrey addresses the idea of democracy and piracy.

7:14 – Geoffrey explains why he started the book in the 15th century.

8:53 – Geoffrey explains why he ended the book at the Age of Revolution.

11:37 – Geoffrey addresses the North Africans raiding Europe.

13:17 – Geoffrey talks about the shift to larger sailing vessels.

16:18 – Geoffrey talks about indigenous populations involvement in the Atlantic war at sea.

18:32 – Geoffrey talks about the war on land around the Atlantic basin and the involvement of indigenous populations.

21:27 – Geoffrey talks about the West African coast.

23:11 – Geoffrey talks about military forces in West Africa.

24:11 – Geoffrey talks about the North and South Atlantic.

26:09 – Geoffrey talks about the development of racism in this period.

30:24 – Geoffrey talks about how often whole colonies were evacuated from the New World to the Old. He also addresses the connection between the slave trade and military operations.

34:40 – Geoffrey talks about the meeting between African slaves and indigenous Americans.

36:38 – Geoffrey talks about a millenarian religious movement.

38:40 – Geoffrey talks about how he did his research.

43:09 – Geoffrey talks about including all of North America within the Atlantic World.

45:20 – Geoffrey talks about the importance of military history in the Atlantic World.

47:46 – Geoffrey talks about galleys being used to block forts in the Caribbean.

50:17 – Geoffrey talks about how rough the lives of sailors were in this period.

54:40 – Geoffrey talks about the role of Central and Eastern Europe in the Atlantic World.

Links of interest

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https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atlantic-wars-9780190860455?cc=us&lang=en&

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For more “Military History Inside Out” please follow me at www.warscholar.org, on Facebook at warscholar, on twitter at Warscholar, on youtube at warscholar and on Instagram @crisalvarezwarscholar. Or subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Please see historyrabbithole.com for a list of my dozen or so blogs and podcasts. You’re sure to find something you like.

Guests: Geoffrey Plank

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, academic, podcast, Oxford University Press, age of sail, American history,  General military history, 19th century war, 18th century war, Renaissance warfare, Naval Warfare, Slavery history, native american, indigenous peoples,

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