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and cornelius vanderbilt. the author discusses his book at the pritzker military center in chicago. it's about 90 minutes. [applause] >> long after they returned home, veterans of the civil war often spoke of battle as a sort of proving ground for man, a test of principle and character like other young men of his generation, teddy roosevelt heard those veterans x -- and he itched for a conflict of his own. in 198 he would receive it with the spanish-american war. others would contrast the glory of myth with the harsh light of reality. though much had changed about the way america fou...

recovered from the defeat in the casrean pass? >> i feel like i'm sitting for my orals in front of professor weinberg. [laughter] well, it was fought in february of 1943. the u.s. army very green then with green commanders, it landed in north africa with the british on november 8, 1942, and had advanced eastward across the northern coast of north africa, northwest africa. and on february 14, 1943, the germans under two very competent commanders, one named rommel you've probably heard of, launched a surprise attack directly against the americans, particularly the first armored divisio...