NYMAS Fall 2005 CALENDAR
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Fall Friday/Saturday Conference
Sept. 9 Anglo-Dutch Coalition Warfare in the Late 17th Century John Stapleton USMA
Sept. 16 Count Felix von Luckner and the Cruise of the Seeadler
Blaine Pardoe Author
Sept. 23 Allied Intervention in Russia, 1918-1920 Eugene Feit NYMAS /
CUNY Graduate Center
Sept. 30 Introduction, screening and discussion of the film Battle of Algiers in a newly translated and subtitled print (Special start time: 6 pm) Mark H. Jacobsen US Marine Corps Command and Staff College
Oct. 7 Harassment and Interdiction Fire: Resolving American Strategy during the Vietnam War Major John Hawkins USMA
Oct. 14 The End of World War II TBA
Oct. 15
(Sat.) All Day Saturday Conference
60th Anniversary Reflections on
The End of World War II
Inside Japan's Final Days:
Ending the Greater East Asia War Theodore F. Cook, Jr., William Paterson University
The End of One War, the Beginning of Another Norman Friedman NYMAS / Author
They Were All Above-Average: French Myths of the Resistance and Liberation David Gordon NYMAS / CUNY Graduate Center History Dept.
Oct. 21 The Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union: Ethics and the Untermenschen André Mineau University of Quebec
Oct. 28 U.S. Military Advisers in Greece during the Greek Civil War in 1947-1950 Major John Walmsley USMA
Nov. 4 Fact and Fiction: Why Napoleon Really Invaded Spain in 1808
Alex Stavropoulos CUNY, GC , History Dept.
Nov. 11 The Battle of Corinth: How Grant Took Credit for a Victory 50 Miles Away Frank Varney Cornell University
Nov. 18 German Special Operations Forces and Doctrine in the 1920s and 30s Major Bill Mengel USMA
Dec. 2 War of Annihilation: Operation Barbarossa and the Crimes in the East, 1941 Geoffrey Megargee U.S. Holocaust Museum
Dec. 3
(Sat.) The Battle for Berlin, 1945 Jim Dingeman NYMAS / INN
Dec. 9 Brooklyn in the Civil War Bud Livingston Civil War Round Table of New York
Dec. 16 Duty, Honor, Privilege: NY's Silk Stocking Regiment and the Breaking of the Hindenburg Line Stephen L. Harris Author
Updated Saturday, August 20, 2005– Bob Rowen rrowen@nymas.org
NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. They are held on Friday evenings, except as noted, at the City University of New York Graduate Center, at 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
These Friday lectures are usually held on the 6th floor in Room 6-495, but confirmation of the room number should be obtained from the guard at the street-level entrance. These talks are sponsored by the New York Military Affairs Symposium in conjunction with CUNY's Conference on History and Politics, Dr. George D. Schwab, Director. NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History, Region 2. Topics and speakers may be subject to change without notice. A current updated schedule is always available at our website: nymas.org
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