with our moderator professor westad. so as a reminder, you can silence your devices in the room if you re on zoom you can submit your q&a using the q&a feature. you have your volume and video muted, but we re recording this session and we ll extend and circulate a copy for the benefit of everyone. so we re delighted to kick it off. i m gonna hand it over. to professor arne westott, he s yale s elehoo professor of global affairs and history. he s the director of international security studies and he s a very close colleague of ours and as well as paul s who s been a colleague and mentor to so many over the years at jackson and at yale. so thank you and over to you arnie. thank you very much ted. it s wonderful to be sharing this session with my colleague and friend professor paul kennedy. now of course here at yale pull doesn t need any introduction. he has been the mentor to many of us who are here to generations of undergraduate students and and graduate students. he built u
two. we ll introduce professor kennedy in just a moment along with our moderator professor westad. so as a reminder, you can silence your devices in the room if you re on zoom you can submit your q&a using the q&a feature. you have your volume and video muted, but we re recording this session and we ll extend and circulate a copy for the benefit of everyone. so we re delighted to kick it off. i m gonna hand it over. to professor arne westott, he s yale s elehoo professor of global affairs and history. he s the director of international security studies and he s a very close colleague of ours and as well as paul s who s been a colleague and mentor to so many over the years at jackson and at yale. so thank you and over to you arnie. thank you very much ted. it s wonderful to be sharing this session with my colleague and friend professor paul kennedy. now of course here at yale pull doesn t need any introduction. he has been the mentor to many of us who are here to generations o
visiting our website cspan.org/history. but we re so thrilled to be back open and to be able to have world-class authors and all around great human beings like craig back on our campus and i think most of us know that craig is one of the definitive biographers on ronald reagan. in fact the london telegraph hailed him as the best of the reagan biographers. but he has proven through books like mary ball washington citizen newton december 1941 that he s also one of the best historian authors out there. speaking of which i m sure you all know. he s here tonight to talk about april 1945 is much awaited book to the previously mentioned december 1941. for me the book couldn t come at a better time. see the break-in library s next special exhibition is called the secrets of world war two and it opens on april 2nd. it s a collection of hundreds of artifacts from museums and private collections. never before seen together in order to tell compelling stories of technological advancement
december 1941. for me the book couldn t come at a better time. see the break-in library s next special exhibition is called the secrets of world war two and it opens on april 2nd. it s a collection of hundreds of artifacts from museums and private collections. never before seen together in order to tell compelling stories of technological advancement creative problem solving and incredible human persistence under the backdrop of the world s. just a most destructive war in history. i quickly dug into craig s book to refresh my memory on the end of the war and to gain insight about what was going on around the world and those final few months. what i quickly found was a history book that read like a novel a book that covered the war and what soldiers were encountering just as much as a book that covered what was happening the homefront and abroad what average citizens were seeing and doing and even wearing it is a fascinating look into that era of our history. while preparing f
visiting our website cspan.org/history. but we re so thrilled to be back open and to be able to have world-class authors and all around great human beings like craig back on our campus and i think most of us know that craig is one of the definitive biographers on ronald reagan. in fact the london telegraph hailed him as the best of the reagan biographers. but he has proven through books like mary ball washington citizen newton december 1941 that he s also one of the best historian authors out there. speaking of which i m sure you all know. he s here tonight to talk about april 1945 is much awaited book to the previously mentioned december 1941. for me the book couldn t come at a better time. see the break-in library s next special exhibition is called the secrets of world war two and it opens on april 2nd. it s a collection of hundreds of artifacts from museums and private collections. never before seen together in order to tell compelling stories of technological advancement