Book Release “The Measure of a Man: My Father, the Marine Corps, and Saipan" April 17, 2013

Calling all WWII history buffs: Kathleen Broome Williams’ 4th book, “The Measure of a Man: My Father, the Marine Corps, and Saipan (2013 Naval Institute Press),” will be released April 15, 2013, and debuted at this campus event in a Brown Bag Lunch Lecture. Williams is the Director of General Education and professor of history at Cogswell College in Sunnyvale, California. A prolific military history writer, her published work includes Secret Weapon: U.S. High-frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic (Naval Institute Press, 1996); Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II, (Naval Institute Press, 2001).   

Williams is a trustee of the Society for Military History and has served on the editorial advisory board of The Journal of Military History, as regional coordinator for the SMH, and on several SMH program committees.  For ten years before moving to California she was the executive director of the New York Military Affairs Symposium (NYMAS), which hosts a weekly military history lecture series in New York City.