Andrew Wiest, PhD,
is professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and also the
founding director of the Center for the Study of War and Society. He was born
in Chicago but raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. After attending the
University of Southern Mississippi, Dr. Wiest went on to receive his PhD from
the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 1990. Specializing in the study of
World War I and Vietnam, Dr. Wiest has served as a visiting senior lecturer at
the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in the United Kingdom and as a visiting
professor in the Department of Warfighting Strategy in the United States Air
Force Air War College. Since 1992 he has been active in international
education, leading a study abroad program on World War II to London and
Normandy each summer and developing the award-winning Vietnam Study Abroad
Program. Dr. Wiest has published more than a dozen books on various topics,
including Vietnam’s Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN,
which won the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award; America
and the Vietnam War; Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land; and Passchendaele
and the Royal Navy. Additionally Dr. Wiest has appeared in and consulted on
several historical documentaries for the History Channel, Granada Television,
PBS, the BBC, and Lucasfilm. He lives in Hattiesburg with his family.
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