The author you refer to is Gordon PRANGE, not "Prague". He taught history at the U. of MD when I was a student there. His modern European history course was huge; some classes numbered over 350 and were held in huge ampitheatre classrooms in the older buildings. His most popular course segments were both Pearl Harbor and Midway, wherein he used very detailed models of the landscape and topography of the areas, coupled with very detailed small models of both ships and aircraft that he moved around on the "theatre of battle" boards. Second semester freshmen and first semester sophomores who were required to have a minimum number of credit hours in history flocked to his classes, closing most of them out in the first 3 or 4 days of registration. Those who didn't make it in often registered for next-semester options to sign up first-come, first-served. He was an exciting and dynamic lecturer, and the reality checks he presented in his course curricula left many much-better educated young students as to the innate brutality, savagery, and futility of war. KBM
