Thomas Childers | Soldier from the War Returning

October 24, 2009

Interview with Thomas Childers [14:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

From his website:

Thomas Childers was born and raised in East Tennessee. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Tennessee, and earned his Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 1976.

Since 1976, Professor Childers has taught in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards. In addition to teaching at University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Childers has held visiting professorships at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, Smith College, and Swarthmore College, and he has lectured in London, Oxford, Berlin, Munich, and other universities in the United States and Europe.

Professor Childers is the author and editor of several books on modern German history and the Second World War. These include ‘The Nazi Voter’ (Chapel Hill, 1983), ‘The Formation of the Nazi Constituency,’ (London, 1987) and ‘Reevaluating the Third Reich: New Controversies, New Interpretations’ (New York, 1993). ‘Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany in World War II’ (Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1995), was praised by Jonathan Yardley in ‘The Washington Post’ as “a powerful and unselfconsciously beautiful book.” ‘We’ll Meet Again’ (New York: Henry Holt and Company) was published in 1999 and is set in wartime Germany, France, Britain and the United States. ‘Soldier from the War Returning,’ examines the difficulties of veterans returning home from the Second World War.

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