Our readers. Yet with his latest book rick reminds us again that his gifts continue only indifferent form as an historian. The guns at last light the war in western europe 194445 is the final installment in his trilogy about world war ii. He dedicated nearly 15 years of his life to these three remarkable volumes. The Los Angeles Times has called the liberation trilogy quote of massive use of reporting and powerful to storytelling. A tapestry of fabulous richness and complexity. The Washington Post reviewer describes the pros as achingly sublime. Now its 877 pages but there are fewer will sing this is a very long book he said this once seemed too short. In a recent interview with the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans rick remarked on the necessity of remembering the story of this war when he called the greatest selfinflicted catastrophe in Human History. 60 million dead ,com,com ma one life snuffed out every three seconds for six years. More than 16 million American Veterans o
At the table, the german officer start to explain to her that they had shot the. Then she is going for a tour in town and they point out a man in a technical battalion unit points out, there is the river and this is where 450 jewish men women and children were shot a few months ago. This continued. She starts to learn more and more about this because as she told me oftentimes conversations with soldiers got personal real fast. They hadnt been around these were men who had been around german women for a long time and they wanted to talk about this so when you become the recipients of these kinds of stories, she becomes so upset that she writes back to her mother in november 1941 and she saved these letters and share them with me. She wrote to her mother, what papa says is true. People with no more innovation exceeded a strange odor. I can now pick out these people and many of them really do smell like look. Oh what a slaughterhouse the is. One more sample of a secretary. Very interestin
To what extent do you have legalization and there are various proposals for this. I find myself critical of both the senate bill that was passed last spring and of the critics of the senate bill who are very concerned about border enforcement and so forth. I think we can do better on border enforcement and we have it within our capacity technologically and inconsistent with todays attitudes. The government has some procuring it as we are learning about healthcare. Gov. But i think we have the capacity to basically do that, and as i say i think that people who are hugely considered about the border and yesterdays problem that is likely to be as large in the years to come. One of the things ive been saying is that i think we ought to consider tilting our Immigration Law more towards high skilled immigrants and less towards extended family reunification and i think it both counts but not far enough in my view. The reason we have huge immigration from mexico is not because there is a big q
At mondays veterans day day ceremony at Arlington National cemetery president obama talked about ending the war. Here is a little of what he had. On tour after tour in iraq and afghanistan. This generation, the 911 generation has met ever mission and because of their service the core of al qaeda is on the path to defeat and our homeland is safer. There are many people like the soontobe veteran i met a while ago. Hogan survived to iraq twice and survived three separate ied explosions and deployed again to afgh afgh afghanistan once she was well. She wears the combat action badge and is xht committed to helping others recover from the trial of war. Helping the truth is what she said all about. My fellow americans, that is what we should boo be all about. Soon one of the first marines to arrive in afghanistan 12 years ago, daniel yu, will lead the last trip that is set to deploy and more troops will come home. This winter the troop levels in afghanistan are down to 34,000 and by this Time
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