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SUMMARY:Touring the Battlefields of Europe
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DESCRIPTION:Join historian Robert Mueller as he provides a unique view 
 of the great struggles for conquest over the past 600 years\, from the Hun
 dred Years War to the battles of World War II. Signup required..\nhttps://
 tinley.libnet.info/event/9844243
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Take a tour of the great battlefields of E
 urope!</p>\n<p>Join historian Robert Mueller as he provides&nbsp\;a unique
  view of the great struggles for conquest that occurred there over the pas
 t 600 years\, starting with the English attempt to claim the throne of Fra
 nce in what became the Hundred Years War to the climactic battles of World
  War II. Across these battlefields trod some of the best known figures of 
 European history: Kings Edward III and Henry V\; Jeanne d'Arc\; Waterloo's
  Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington\; the two World Wars' great
 est generals: Joffre\, Foch\, Haig\, Pershing\, Ludendorff\, Rommel\, Gude
 rian\, Patton\, Montgomery\, and Eisenhower. Place names became synonymous
  with tragedy and sacrifice: Somme\, Passchendaele\, Dunkerque\, Omaha Bea
 ch\, and Bastogne.&nbsp\;This one-hour armchair tour brings viewers to the
  sites of these great struggles and describes the events and their results
 . Signup required.</p>\n<p><strong>Speaker Bio:&nbsp\;</strong>Robert Muel
 ler caught the battlefield bug when\, as a child\, he visited Gettysburg\,
  Pennsylvania. Retirement brought him the opportunity to visit and study t
 he battlefields of Europe.</p>\n<p>He has written six visitor guides to th
 e battlefields of Northern Europe under the Fields of War imprint which ha
 ve garnered thirteen national book awards including being honored by the M
 ilitary Writers Society of America. Mr. Mueller has also written comprehen
 sive articles for WW II History Magazine and WW II Quarterly.</p>\n<p>Mr. 
 Mueller's one-hour-long programs combine period and contemporary photograp
 hs with clearly drawn maps to describe the places and the people who dicta
 ted the battle's outcome. He has delivered over 300 presentations across t
 he metropolitan area to wide acclaim.</p>\n<p>Robert Mueller holds advance
 d degrees in physics from the University of Illinois and in business admin
 istration from Lake Forest College. He performed his military service in t
 he US Army Signal Corps during the Vietnam era. Mr. Mueller is a member of
  the Chicago Writers Association and the Military Writers Society of Ameri
 ca.</p>\nhttps://tinley.libnet.info/event/9844243
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