[ applause ] good morning. Can you hear me all right . Clear as a bell, i hope. Well, its lovely to be here for another conference. Each one i come to seems to be even better than the last. Now we have kevin, kevin ruane, here, who has written this very, very good book, churchill and the bomb. So i one of my grandfathers best quotations, and there are so many to choose from is this one. The farther backward we can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. We think, most of us, that history is past. Done and dusted. Over with. Just a memory. But history has a way of coming back to bite us. As Ronald Reagan said, here we go again. I remember when the cold war was over, but then it wasnt. I remember farther back when people were scared of the abomb and then, worse, of the hbomb. And now, today, the specter of nuclear war has once again reared its ugly head. Kevin ruane is professor of modern history at Canterbury Christ Church University in United Kingdom. He has written quite a fe
Vengeance, salvation, and world war ii, about a group of jewish volunteers who fought the nazis and the postwar actions of a few of them. In todays presentation, the last kiss good night, howard has found another remarkable story about a dazzling american debutante who became an allied spied during world war ii and was hailed by oss chief general wild bill donovan as the greatest unsung heroine of world war ii. Ladies and gentlemen, howard blum. [applause] for every author, there is a time when he thinks he has found a story that interests him, when he begins to realize that maybe he can wake up each morning, go to his desk, and look forward to the prospect of spending a day making this story come alive on the page. But those moments are just preludes to the energizing moment when he decides, i love this story, this is a book i have to write. This afternoon, what i would like to tell you is how i came to write the last good night, a true story about a glamorous american debutante who b
Brigade an epic story of vengeance, salvation, and world war ii, about a group of jewish volunteers who fought the nazis and the postwar actions of a few of them. In todays presentation, the last kiss good night, howard has found another remarkable story about a dazzling american debutante who became an allied spy during world war ii and was hailed by oss chief general wild bill donovan as the greatest unsung heroine of world war ii. Ladies and gentlemen, howard blum. [applause] howard for every author, there is a time when he thinks he has found a story that interests him, when he begins to realize that maybe he can wake up each morning, go to his desk, and look forward to the prospect of spending a day making this story come alive on the page. But those moments are just preludes to the energizing moment when he decides, i love this story, this is a book i have to write. This afternoon, what i would like to tell you is how i came to write the last good night, a true story about a glam
Conference at the World War Ii Museum in new orleans. It is about 45 minutes. Our next speaker is howard blum, who brought the story you are about to hear to our local audience earlier this year while he was on his book tour. We thought so much of it and of howard that we wanted to bring him back for you all here today. One of his previous books that im sure you all know of is the brigade an epic story of vengeance, salvation, and world war ii, about a group of jewish volunteers who fought the nazis and the postwar actions of a few of them. In todays presentation, the last kiss good night, howard has found another remarkable story about a dazzling american debutante who became an allied spied during world war ii and was hailed by oss chief general wild bill donovan as the greatest unsung heroine of world war ii. Ladies and gentlemen, howard blum. [applause] howard blum for every author, there is a time when he thinks he has found a story that interests him, when he begins to realize th
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the 33rd anal chur hill conference. My name is david freeman. I am here this weekend acting in as Program Chair for the conference. We want to make a special welcome to the cspan audience which will be watching us live for all the Panel Sessions today and tomorrow. So were sticking to a rigid. Timetable. Were going to get right into it by introducing our first speaker of the morning, the executive director of the International Churchill society, mr. Lee pollock. Thank you, david. And i join you in welcoming everyone who is your duty to will be a wonderful conference. Or as one of our president ial candidates might say, this crowd is huge. Its been a year since our last and very memorable conference in my case six years since i became your executive director. During the past year with your support we have continued to build on the work that has gone before. Just consider a couple of things are do a Google Search for Winston Churchill, youll