Florida - Gulf Coast Chapter Summer Seminar Saturday, August 19, 2006 Hilton Garden Inn, Tampa North Thanks to All Who Made Our 2006 Seminar a Big Success Click here for photos of the event.

War in the East Speakers "Albion" - The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands, 1917 Michael Barrett §   Michael Barrett graduated from The Citadel with honors in 1968 and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Massachusetts. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany and is a retired Brigadier General in the Army Reserve. His most recent publication is a chapter in World War II (Dorling-Kindersley, 2004). Professor Barrett is completing a book for Indiana Press on the 1917 German conquest of the Baltic Islands. He teaches Western Civilization, WWI, Hitler and National Socialism, Aviation and Airpower at The Citadel and is Faculty Advisor to the Cadet Honor Committee. Richard C. Hall Bulgaria's General Nikola Zhekov and the German Army §   Richard C. Hall is the author of Bulgaria's Road to the First World War ( Eastern European Monographs, 1996) and The Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 (Taylor & Francis, 2000). He currently chairs the Department of History & Political Science at George Southwestern University. Professor Hall is a graduate of Vanderbilt, and holds MA and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio State. He is a US Army veteran has also taught at the Air War College, and at the Universities of Nebraska - Lincoln and Minnesota State - Mankato. Solidarity or Vassalage: Joint Planning Between the German and Austro-Hungarian Armies Mike Kihntopf §   Mike Kihntopf is a 23-year veteran of the US Air Force who participated in planning for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, as well as serving on the battle staffs for the earlier Panama and Grenada invasions. He is the author of Victory in the East: The Rise and Fall of the German Imperial Army (White Mane, 2000) and Handcuffed to a Corpse: German Intervention in the Balkans and on the Galician Front, 1914-1917 (White Mane, 2002). He teaches junior high school in Texas Origins of the Armenian Genocide Dennis R. Laffer §   Dennis R. Laffer concentrates on World Wars One and Two, the Holocaust and genocide. He is a recently-retired physician working toward a Masters Degree at the University of South Florida leading toward a new career in History. Dr. Laffer currently is researching a thesis comparing Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide to Holocaust denial. Joseph Meeler American Soldiers on the Italian Front, 1918 §   Joseph L. Meeler is a retired Army Reserve Lt. Colonel who recently earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Georgia. He is visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of West Georgia. He is a graduate of Kennesaw State University, Georgia State University, and the University of West Georgia, as well as the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, and taught the US Army Artillery School at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Dr. Meeler's articles have been published in Relevance and The Journal of the Historical Society of the Georgia National Guard. Jack Tunstall World War I and Its Effects on World History §   Jack Tunstall received his Ph.D. from Rutgers and is currently Professor of History at the University of Southern Florida, as well as Executive Director of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society. His published work includes Planning for War Against Russia and Serbia: Austro-Hungarian and German Military Strategies, 1871-1914 (Columbia, 1993). Dr. Tunstall's new books World War I and its Effects on World History (Harlan Davidson) and Blood in the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War (Kansas) will be published in 2006. He is a Director of WFA's US Branch and chairs the committee that awards the Annual WFA-Phi Alpha Theta Undergraduate Essay Award. The Netherlands in World War One: the Perils of Neutrality Hubert van Tuyll §   Hubert P. van Tuyll is Professor of History at Augusta State University, Georgia. He is the author of The Netherlands and World War I (Brill, 2001) and America's Strategic Future: A Blueprint for the New Millennium (Greenwood, 1998). Professor van Tuyll was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is a graduate of the University of Montevallo (BA Economics, 1974), the Duke University School of Law (JD, 1979) and Texas A&M University (Ph.D. History, 1989).

Our Program 9:00 am -- Jack Tunstall, The Role of the Eastern Front 10:00 am -- Mike Kihntopf, Solidarity or Vassalage: Joint Planning Between the German and Austro-Hungarian Armies 11:00 am -- Joseph Meeler, American Soldiers on the Italian Front, 1918 Noon -- Lunch 1:30 pm -- Richard C. Hall, Bulgaria's General Nikola Zhekov and the German Army 2:30 pm -- Dennis Laffer, Origins of the Armenian Genocide 3:30 pm -- Hubert van Tuyll, The Netherlands in WWI: The Perils of Neutrality 4:30 pm -- Michael Barrett, "Albion" - The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands, 1917 6:00 pm -- Cocktails, cash bar 7:00 pm -- Dinner, after dinner speaker, Jack Tunstall, World War I and Its Effects on World History

Registration and Directions

To register, send your check for $80 to Len Shurtleff, 6915 NW 49th Street, Gainesville, Florida 32653-1152. Registration includes luncheon, dinner and coffee/tea breaks.

Accommodations: Call the Hilton Garden Inn Tampa North (813) 342-5000 and ask for the WFA rate of $79 plus tax. Refer to the map below.



Need more information? Call Len Shurtleff at (352) 379-3200 or e-mail Jack Tunstall at tunstall@cas.usf.edu.

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