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
Now on bbc news all the latest Business News live from singapore. A strong earnings season in the us has helped lift asian stocks, but will that continue . And, why this circus wants to somersault into china by linking up with the Blue Man Group. Its a busy week for us companies, reporting earnings. We will hear from companies, reporting earnings. We will hearfrom some companies, reporting earnings. We will hear from some key firms including google, and their parent company, alphabet. They will release the revenue of youtube for the first time. We will also hearfrom General Motors and mcdonalds during the two day policy meeting. On wednesday, we find out how facebook and nintendo are faring, followed by amazon, twitter and starbucks on thursday. We learnt what to expect. There are going to be several 100 American Companies reporting this week. As far as corporate earnings are concerned, what has been driving the market up to now has been Companies Cutting costs, and using those cuts, a