Gettysburg. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was 1963. The Centennial Anniversary of the battle of gettysburg. I remember being a child, standing there, not fully understanding with the civil war was about. What the gettysburg address was about. What had really happened gettysburg. But knowing, in my heart, as i stood there, feeling the summer stones if you have been there, they are unforgettable i knew something extraordinary had happened. This was a sacred place. I took home from the visit in 1963 a small wooden revolver, a souvenir, with the dates of the bowel stamped on the barrel battle stamped on the barrel. I keep it as a reminder of what history really means. Morei set out to write than 25 years ago, hard to believe, but when i set out, i wanted to maintain a sense of childlike wonder about history. I could not understand people saying, history is so dull. So boring. All these days and battles and speeches. History is anything but that. It is the story of real people and
Is laid to rest in his home country. And how your seafood dinner may be the result of slave labour. In jerusalem sirens blare as a cloud of smoke is seen in the distance. A threat of rocket attacks september people running for safety through the main streets of the city. In gaza 163 palestinians have been killed, more than 1,000 injured by the israeli air strikes. The israel gaza conflict is entering day six. The israeli Army Launched 1,000 air strikes. As we mentioned a moment ago, the death toll in gaza stands at 163. That is according to gazas health ministry. Of those 29 are children under the age of 18. We also know that at least seven of the casualties have been palestinian fighters. Al jazeeras john hendren gives us an upclose look of what its luke to come under missile like to come under missile in gaza. Reporter at 6am a warning get out. A neighbour records what happiness next in this mobile phone video. A warning rocket from an israeli drone strikes the roof, then this. One m
Coming up on cspan2. Host Rick Atkinson, what is the liberation trilogy . Guest began 15 years ago and it is an account of the liberation of europe. Particularly from a perspective of americans and other western allies. The first volume begins where europe begins in november of 1942. The invasion of morocco and algeria and the Campaign Across north africa. The second volume moves north across the mediterranean to the invasion of sicily in july of 1942. Southern epperly and september 1943. The third volume begins on the evening of the invasion of normandy. June 4, 1944. The final volume tells the final chapter of this story between europe in may of 1945 onward. Host white we began in north africa . Guest that is where the story begins. The store you was at the urging of Winston Churchill to not try to cross the English Channel in 1942 and 1943. Partly because the American Army included the green commanders, partly because we did not have the land and the other materials necessary to und
Host german women in the nazi killing field. Whats the book about . Guest an entire generation of german women i call them the world war i baby boomers. There was an increase right after the first world war, a spike in births, about 19181919 coinciding with german women getting votes. You have a surge of female population coinciding with the opening up of womens opportunities politically. The stories about this generation that came of age during the period of the nazi regime in the 30s who saw, you know, opportunities that they didnt have before, take part in the political system, the revolutions, all exciting job opportunities, and their first way of getting out of the villages. Many of the women, you know, living in small, remote villages wanted to get art to see the city and experience city life. Its about the women who come of age with their ambitions and dreams, but these coinside with the establishment of a criminal jen sigh dale regime. What happened when the political awakening
Turkey and the e. U. And all of that, it might create for lebanon an investment in its stability and its longterm viability because of the importance of energy. Similar to what, how the gulf sort of gets its stability and security. The gulf countries are, you know, strange tribes, but they survived because they have important resources. Other parking lots of the world parts of the world sometimes have that as well. Thats very important for lebanons geostrategic environment. If the east and west agree that this must be a peace offul zone because there are important resources here, now actually moving forward on whats the economic value of this, the first thing is to figure out how to get it to market. The market is effectively europe. The original approach was or the plan was certainly to take it over land to turkey which would mean through syria as long as the war there is raging, you cannot do that. But that is the most Cost Effective i way. And i would indicate that part of the war f