With us today. Courtesy of peter and pamela vos as well as bob and alice. Alison smith bob drury is the author, coauthor, editor of nine books hes written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, vanity fair, mens journal and gq. Hes currently a contributing editor and Foreign Correspondent for mens health, and he lives in new jersey. Tom clavin is the author or coauthor of 16 books for 15 years. He wrote for the New York Times and has contributed to such magazines as golf, mens journal, parade Readers Digest and smithsonian. Hes currently the investigator of features correspondent for manhattan magazine and lives in sag harbor, new york. Together, they are the number one New York Times bestselling authors of the heart of everything that is lucky six, six, six houses. Typhoon last men out and the last stand of fox company, which won the marine corps heritage foundations general wallace and green award. Please give a warm savannah welcome to bob drury and tom clavin. Tha
he was a successful businessman and in concert with his wife margaret became a generous philanthropist. a gift from the mason foundation created an endowed lecture series here at the museum which we have been hosting since 2008 and with which we will be bringing in he)e for multiple events, many distinguished speakers such as the gentleman will be joining us just a moment. for the final session of the morning, we re brint)jt one of our oldest friends from the museum, best selling author, alex kershaw. who as i joke one or two may know him, i think all of you know him, anybody who has any interest in world war ii or military history generally has great respect for alex and his many books which include the bedford boys. longest winter escape from the deep. in our final mission submarine experience. but today alex is here to discuss his latest book, the first wave: the d-day warriors who led the way to victory in world war ii. please join me in welcoming alex kershaw.
Featured in the recent film the finance about a group of jewish defiance that fought the nazis. But peter is your to talk about an american citizen who became a mole to expose nazi spies who infiltrated the United States. Book, double the hero of world war ii and how the fbi outwitted and estroyed a nazi spy ring, please welcome me in join me in welcoming peter duffy. [applause] peter thank you very much. This is quite annexed extra narrator facility with amazing equipment in front of us. I hope it holds while im up here. Our b17 issues that i will touch on in my story , the german spies were interested, a famous piece from that great airplane. An interestingl and forgotten unknown figure, particularly the american story of world war ii, a quizzical and i will begin this like a real spy story, noting an early 1939 come up for the war , he was living in new avoided boarded a passenger liner on the left side peers of manhattan and sailed for nazi germany, which was preparing for war. He
Launches and conference appearances here in portlands. It also by being one of our in new orleans. But also by being one of our speakers. He is here to talk about his latest look avenue of spies, which is the basis of the tour alex just got back from last lead where we took people from normandy, following the bedford boys, then to paris with a remarkable story we are about to hear unfolded during the not the occupation. I occupation. Please join me in welcoming alex. Ershaw area alex can you hear me ok . Good. In you hear me over here if pace around nervously . As i walk the avenue of spies . Grade. Fantastic audience. Im going to be very politically incorrect now and Say Something that i probably shouldnt say. Im actually going to think someone from the museum who is the reason why i am standing here right now. Please, jeremy collins, can you stand up, raise your hand up . Wheres jeremy . [applause] the reason why im going to embarrass him briefly, and please forgive me for this, is b
But when the cold war ended and particularly when the war in terror began, it moved so drastically away from focus on russia that i think it lost its ability to conduct operations even in conducting basic analytical work about it. There is still very good people there who deal with russian and who are experts in russia. But its drastically shrunk from what it was. And i think now that russia is seen as much more of a threat over the last couple of years, particularly because of its activity military activities in ukraine, is that there will be some respectificati firectif thereby more effort and more personnel devoted to trying to understand russia. Did you have something . Just really quickly, you know it takes time and as mark said, if you focus on it now, it takes years to develop expertise and if you are talking about human intelligence penetrating russia and putins inner circle so it will take a while. Even if theyre doing it now. Thank you very much, thank you for coming. Please