Hamilton talks about the last book in his trilogy. War and peace covers the fdr planning in dday until his death in 1945. National World War Ii Museum in new orleans hosted this event. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the national World War Ii Museum what and to those watching on the live stream i know youre out there and with us in spirit and we feel your presence too. As many of probably know im the Senior Historian here at the museum and im also the executive director of the institute for the study of war and democracy. Tonight is the latest install. Our meet the author series and we always like to mention our sponsor we bring this to you with the generous support of the strak foundation. So thank you. Now, many of you have been to our events before. You probably know we have a tradition here at the museum. May i ask are there any world war ii veterans or home front workers in the audience tonight if you will please stand or wave. [ applause ] thanks, folks. You know, i have heard
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the National World War Ii Museum. All of those of you sitting here and to those watching on the live stream, i know you are out there and with us in spirit and we feel your presence too. As many of you probably no dr. Rob satino im here at the museum and executive direct of the institute for the study of war and democracy. Tonight is the latest installment of our meet the author series and we always like to mention our sponsor we bring this to you with the generous sport of the Strake Foundation and couldnt do it without them thank you. The many have been to the events we know we have a tradition at the mumz. May i ask are there any world war ii veterans or home front workers in the audience tonight . If you would please stand and be wave. Two. [ applause ] thanks, folks. You know, ive heard the president and ceo nick mueller and Steven Watson say this many times we built this museum for you thp thank you for coming to the events. Military veterans of
At the beginning of august we were seized what could be confirmed was towards the middle of the month the germans started to leave the city. Yes, those those were the same germans who assigned 25 year on their pockets. Then on the 14th normandy went on strike. The next day the gestapo that was the day that the police car opened fire on the national guard. After that it seems the french flag was hanging from every window. Two days later we started running. Me, my husband, people were clinging. The french army had. I kissed my husband. He began to realize how unhappy we had been for years and how lucky we were to be alive on this august day. Mary Louise Roberts is a history professor at the university of wisconsin madison. Joining us this morning and our focus on dday to talk about her book, dday through franchise. Prof. Roberts, we just heard video from the liberation of paris later that summer but take us back to before the invasion. What was normandy like on june 5 . The french had be
I am the Senior Historian here at the museum. I am also the executive director for the institute of the study of war and democracy. Tonight is the latest installment of our meet the authors series. We like to mention our sponsor, we bring this to you with the generous support of the strake foundation. So, thank you. Many of you have been to our events before. You know we have a tradition at the museum. May i ask, are there any world war ii veterans or homefront workers in the audience tonight . If you would please stand. Or wave. [applause] thanks, folks. [applause] i heard the president and ceo emeritus, and the current president say as many times, we built this museum for you, so thanks for coming to these events. Military veterans of any other era, if you would stand and wave. [applause] we always know that is a large number. I love the waves. People give different forms of waves. Looks good. I like that one. Thank you so much. We would like to acknowledge three special guests in th
Memorial and the American Veterans center. Host we have another Great Program coming up. Prominent attorney from baltimore, maryland. A graduate of the naval academy. Vice president of his class for five years, very active in all kinds of charitable activities throughout the area and nationally. I am proud to say that he is part of the advisory board. He has done a great deal to help the American Veterans center. Mostrobably his distinguished achievement was being my roommate in 1970. He and i were roommates on the uss henderson, still the best of friends 45 years later. That tells you young officers about what kind of camaraderie develops in the military. I could tell a lot of stories, but we are not on cable tv. We had a lot of fun going from liberty port to liberty port. I remember one time in the philippines, we tried to return to the base around 3 00 in the morning. In desperation, we leaped into the middle of the road and it did an awesome version of the in the name of love. We h