Liberation trilogy a masterpiece of deep reporting and rich storytelling. The New York Times review calls it at that again this finale a tapestry of richness and complexity. The Washington Post reviewer described the process achingly sublime. Now its 877 pages, but the reviewer noted while saying this is a very long book, this one seemed too short. In a recent interview with the National World war ii museum, rick remarked on the necessity of remembering and telling the story of this sort, what he called the greatest selfinflicted catastrophe in Human History. 60 million dead, one life snuffed out every three seconds for six years. Rick added of more than 60 million American Veterans of world war ii, if you than 2 million remain alive. When i contemplate what is lost as culturally as they slip into the shadows at the rate of 800 a day, foremost perhaps is the ability to bear witness, to tell the story firsthand, to attest to the authenticity and authority why they fought suffered and di
But the book is tentatively titled little is the new big, or why little is the new big. And its about what weve been talking about with Community Shops and the explosive growth of farmers markets, the explosive growth of independent bookstores and people looking to reclaim their own lives and, you know, no harm to them, the people who work in walmart are nice people, but to stay out of walmart, to stay out of the ways in which walmart and other very, very Large Businesses do business that the costs are hidden. The shortterm cheapness is paying a longterm, is taking a longterm price out of us and out of our childrens futures. Be so im working on a book about that. Well, my husband was born in a ham let in southwest virginia which one . Darwin, virginia, which we found recently had more or less disappeared from the map. But when he was six months also, his parents moved to puff frees borrow murfreesboro which was like moving to new york city. He had not been back until two years ago we w
Those days are not quite as distant as some suppose. We remember that a few people still alive today lived through them, albeit as children. 2014 will mark that centennial of the drama which profoundly influenced the history of the world. I spent the last three years writing a book describing both how the war came about and what happened on the battlefields during its first months before the french lapsed into a stalemate. There is a widely held view, a delusion, as i shall argue, that the two world wars belong to different moral orders. Nineteen robo one was a good war, world war ii was bad. The first subject was so horrendous that turned is that makes it of the two sides causes could badly to meant barely managed. They add a view of what they think happened. Until 1941 britain defied the vast evil of nazism, berlin. In russia and the United States took this train encompassing the destruction of hitler. The struggle was nothing like as bloody as its predecessor, says some people kid t
Its really exciting. And be, of course, its a lot less stressful than writing about jerusalem. Host you also have another project coming out after that . Guest ah, the world. Host the history of the world. A biography . Guest yeah. Im going to do a history of the world after that. Ive been it was my publishers idea. And they said to me, like, would you do it . Its not going to be a long, in fact, its more of a literary book, more of a philosophical week. Its not going to have its not going to be like the sort of pantheon book of history, you know, with everything, everything in it. Its actually going on what fascinates me in history, and its going to be probably the shortest book ive written, in fact, of all my books because its just going to be, its going to be a literary and philosophical look at life and the world. But through the lives of people. So thats why its called a biography, rather like i did in jerusalem. So thats going to be one hell of a challenge, too, but its wildly ex
Morning. Not fighting for the title. Looking at a much brighte day morning. Looking at a much brighter day with more sunshine but it will feel cooler outside today. Meanwhile, the north of the uk, will continue to see some scattered showers. Join me for a full forecast a little bit later on. Its sunday november the 22nd. Our top story a plan to lift englands lockdown on december 2 will be finalised by government ministers today. The Prime Minister is planning to replace the National Lockdown with a stricter version of the three tiered system of restrictions, with more areas facing tougher rules, although pubs maybe allowed to stay open until beyond 10pm. Our Political Correspondent leila nathoo reports. What will christmas look like this year . We will soon find out. Tomorrow, borisjohnson will confirm to parliament that glenda is coming out of National Lockdown on the second of december and going back into three tiers of coronavirus restrictions. England is coming out. More areas unde