months ago she helped organize a program where we had scholars from around the continent come for a daylong program. catherine s information is in your program. i would point out that in addition to being a professor at mississippi state university she is the author of two fine books, one entitled, the battle of kursk and the other titled, strategy and tactics. ladies and gentlemen, dr. catherine barbee and liza mundy. good morning. happy to see all of these nice faces outfront. this is a fantastic event and i m excited about being part of it. i would like to introduce liza mundy, a journalist and author of four books and you can read her fuller bio the program. she is going to talk to us about an amazing book, code girls: the untold story of the american (t(áqp)q)s of world war ii which i recently read and highly recommend. so i m looking for to her presentation. thank you so much, dr. barbier, for that introduction. it is fun to see colleagues from the washington post