JACKSON, Tenn. — Oct. 19, 2015 — Robert Citino, an award-winning author on modern military history, will speak at the 19th annual Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lecture Series Oct. 29 at Union University.
A history professor at the University of North Texas, Citino was ranked the number one classroom professor in the United States in 2007. He has written nine widely acclaimed books about military history. His most lauded works discuss German military history.
Citino’s newest book, “The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943,” won the 2013 Distinguished Book Award. His book “Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare,” won the American Historical Association’s 2004 Paul Birdsall Prize for best military and strategic history book of the year.
He served as the Charles Boal Ewing Visiting Professor of Military History at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, from 2008 through 2009. Citino’s work in the field of military history earned him the Spencer Tucker Award that same year.
Citino will present his lecture, “The Big Collapse: The German Army in 1945,” at 7:15 p.m. in the G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel. It is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow.
For more information, contact Stephen Carls at (731) 661-5262 or scarls@uu.edu.